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无名氏

2006-12-10T14:54:00.000+01:00

徘徊于港口
沉溺于人海中
渺茫但皓然的双眼
被那无名氏
牢牢地吸引住了

她诗韵般的存在
呼唤似如梦幻的倩影

她绵绵披肩的长发
扰乱了大地的平静

她优雅的一举一动
直叫波涛澎湃

他靓丽且慧贤的双眼
直逼神哭鬼泣

她的嫣然一笑
侵蚀了无息的时空

俺心忐忑
只好转身过来
但那散落一地的心慌
用力的感应着
她盈盈上船的姿态

蓦然回首
船只已缓缓离去
朦胧间逐渐消失
转瞬间变成黑点

人生路茫茫
诗韵且绵绵，优雅而慧贤
无名氏
咱们再会吧

-栩-

Happy Father's Day

2006-06-18T22:57:00.000+02:00

My PAPA ..
a man who has never had any tertiary education ..
but a man who has managed to groom all his children into Engineers ..
but a man who has climbed the ladder from an office boy to a manager ..
but a man who started bare-footedly and walks in leather shoes today ..

My PAPA ..
a man who was once accused by the others as being thrifty ..
but a man who has never ever hesitated to splash money on our education ..
but a man who has deprived himself of new clothes, just to get his beloved ones theirs ..
but a man who is never afraid of being labelled stingy..
for he is always wealthy in catering to his family ..

My PAPA ..
in you, we have seen the best example of 'nothing is impossibe' ..
in you, we have seen the replica of a successful person in life ..
I remember u told us : Everything starts from a dream, never be ashamed to dream ..
and we do still remember things that u told us from day one ..

Words are scarce to express our gratitude ..
for nothing could be enough to return ur love and care..
:) Happy Father's Day :)

-TH, TK, HK-

Mas v Singapore

2006-06-12T23:50:00.000+02:00

Title : Malaysia vs Singapore - Why we fail the negotiation?

Singapore Cabinet

PM Lee Hsien Loong
Cambridge University - First Class Honours (1974)
Harvard University - Masters (1980)

SM Goh Chok Tong
University of Singapore - First Class Honours (1964)
Williams College, USA - Masters (1967)

MM Lee Kuan Yew
Cambridge University - First Class Honours (1949)

Minister for Law Prof. S Jayakumar
University of Singapore - Bachelor of Law Honours (1963)
Yale Univerity - Masters (1966)

Minister for Home Affairs Wong Kan Seng
University of Singapore - Bachelor of Arts & Business Admin (1977)
London Business School - Masters (1979)

Minister for Foreign Affairs BG George Yeo
Cambridge University - Double First Class Honours (1976)
Harvard Business School - MBA w/ Distinction (1985)

Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang
Cambridge University - First Class Honours w/ Distinction (1976)
Harvard University - Masters (1986)

Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean
University of Manchester - First Class Honours (1976)
Imperial College, London - Masters w/ Distinction (1977)

Minister for Education Tharman Shanmugaratnam
London School of Economics - Bachelor of Arts
Cambridge University - Masters
Harvard University - Masters
_______________________________________________

Malaysia Cabinet

PM Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad Badawi
University of Malaya - Bachelor of Arts Honours (1964)

Deputy PM Dato' Sri Najib Razak
University of Nottingham - Bachelor of Arts Honours (1974)

Minister of Foregn Affairs Syed Hamid Albar
(can someone tell me his univeristy? )- Bachelor of Arts

Ministry of Works- Dato' Seri Samy Vellu
(Education Unknown)

Ministry of International Trade & Industry Rafidah binti Aziz
Universiti Malaya - Bachelor of Arts Honours

Minister of Agriculture Muhyiddin Yassin
(Education Unknown)

Ministry of Domestic Trade Shafie Apdal
(Education Unknown)

Minister of Education Hishammuddin Hussein
(Education Unknown)

Minister of Home Affairs Radzi bin Sheikh Ahmad
(Education Unknown)

**That is why they are so desperate to get Khairy Jamaluddin up so fast, because he is from Cambridge. God knows how he got in!

Mummy, i still remember....

2006-05-14T10:05:00.000+02:00

Mummy, i still remember...
You used to walk me to every tuition centre ...
You used to accompany me on buses ...
be it to the British Council or Pusat Bimbingan Lai Lai...
be it on sweltering days or rainy nights ...
for we could not afford any car back then ...

Mummy, i still remember ...
at times when i fell down ...
be it in my pursuit towards my goals ...
be it over a chair or a hurdle ...
You have always been there to embrace me with your arms ...
You have never failed to pick me up again and again...

Mummy, i still remember ...
You forked out those little extra bucks that you've been saving...
only to buy me my favourite toys ...
You woke up the earliest in the morning everyday...
only to wake us up and prepare us the breakfast...
so on and so on and so on ...

and Mummy, i still remember...
I am who i am today because of your undividing love ...
I am where i am today because of your unfailing support ...
I am what i am today because of your unflagging care ...
I am everything i am because you are my mummy...

I could never be filial enough to repay your love ...
No amount of words could have said how grateful i am ...
for your love is immortal and your care is bounteous ...
The only thing i could do today is to say ...
I love you and thank you ...
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY...

- Tua Pui Kia -

Update

2006-04-18T01:00:00.000+02:00

update in http://teonghee.blogs.friendster.com/my_blog/

走着走着..

2006-04-02T21:15:00.000+02:00

走着走着
以往拥挤的人群
以往被簇拥的感觉
全都灵飞魂散了

走着走着
以往热情的眼神
以往含笑的脸面
都被冷漠取代了

但
走着走着
口中依然吟吟有歌
管他听懂听不懂
任他异样的眼神

才知道
迷失方向的
不是我
而是身边的异物

-栩-

SPM...TOP SCORERS ??

2006-03-26T21:17:00.000+02:00

Just a couple of weeks ago, the much-awaited results of SPM last year were officially released..

According to the statistics, it was reported to be the best overall result of SPM as compared with all of the previous years. It boasts of close to 4000 candidates scoring straight A's, with approximately 1000 or 25% of them scoring straight A1's. All of a sudden, it seems like we have never failed to achieve marked improvement in terms of academic results EVEY YEAR in Malaysia. One just gets the impression that the best and the brightest or the so-called cream of the crop are just about everywhere and anywhere at all in our country.

As a matter of fact, i've pitched on the idea of writing an article about this particular issue for quite a while. A lot of questions have been buzzing in my mind alongside it as well.

Are we in this position because the education policy that's currently in place is indeed so freakingly efficacious that it never fail to produce results ?

Does it underpin the widely speculated fact that the marking scheme od the examination is getting more and more lenient all the time?

or is it that the malaysian students nowadays are so superb academically to the extent that so many of them manage to score straight A1's ?

Don't get me wrong, i'm not trying to disparage any parties or undermine the efforts of those scoring brilliant results, nor am i trying to equivocate like what those politicians normally do.

I know how it's like striving for straight A's as i've been through it. However, i just can't help thinking that it somewhat reveals a weird phenomenon or what i would describe as a dilemma that lies beneath it. I guess it's just a common target of the fellow students nowadays to ''score as many A's as possible'' :

Something like 14, 15, 16 subjects? bring it on...the more i have, the better i am..

Call me sarcastic, i actually think that the more A's one scores doesn't actually depict one's true academic ability. I suppose with the current education system that we have back there, it just reveals what an ''exam machine'' you are . When it comes to real and practical life, when it comes to the point where true potential really matters, we lag behind. Just take a look at this SHORT CLIP here. It's a small machine that my german frens created out of scratch ...and that was during the first semester of my engineering studies ! I remember feeling like a parasite because of my lack of contribution in designing the device. Frankly, i cant see any of the so-called top scorers of us having the ability to do that in the first semester.

I also remember being told last time to memorize those so-called beautiful phrases and trying to apply the same phrases in every single essay. I have to admit that most of the time, it was successful in impressing the one marking my essay and subsequently helping me to score good grades. There're some classic phrases that i used to apply frequently which go like this:

''Sinar fajar kegemilangan telah mengobori tanah air selama xx tahun. Kita sebagai anak watan yang bernaung di bawah jalur gemilang haruslah mempunyai semangat yang berkobar-kabar ...bla bla....jika tidak, wawasan 2020 hanya akan menjadi satu utopia yang tidak dapat dikecapi. ''
I used to be proud of the fact that i managed to write something as beautiful as this. But nowadays, looking back to it, there's practically nothing to be proud of actually. I just memorised the phrase without appreciating its meaning. I scored solely because i managed to memorise the phrases like the one mentioned above. Similarly, if u wanna score in science subjects, do past-year-papers ! chances are, similar questions will most probably come out again.

Hence, i would say that the current edu. sys doesn't really encourage creavity or the correct learning way, but rather, it endangers the real potentials of our students.

Worse still, it seems like nowadays everybody is trying to take as many subjects as possible without really knowing the direction that he/she is supposed to take. The main priority is to score as many A's as possible, and i just can't see how the common perception will change to otherwise in the future, well, at least for the next few years.

Enough said, i might sound a bit radical, but at the end of the day, everyone is entitled to his/her own opinions. Do tell me your view on the matter too dude's ! :)

Syiok Sendiri 2

2006-03-07T14:21:00.000+01:00

Holidays are meant to be wasted.... they are, they really are .....

Lazing around as a couch potato, sleeping for more than 10 hours per day, doing nothing whilst deriving the pleasure from merely staring blank at the surroundings..... can you think of a more unproductive way to kill time apart from those that are mentioned above?

Realising that time never waits, i made a solemn oath to myself to put the time to good use. Having said that, i guess it's time to shake off the lethargic somnolence before it becomes a death trance. OK, not as serious as it might sound, but i guess u can feel the resounding and yet piercing resolution residing deep inside me right ? :P

As a result, i spent more than 15 hours altogether singing and recording. Now guys, u have to see outside the box. At this point, i can sense intuitively a twinkle in your eyes that acknowledges the corniness of what i've done. Now put that aside, see outside the box... Don't let the brevity of the fleeting ''15 hours'' to prevent you from savouring the profundity of the ''moral value'' that lies beneath it .Yeah, that's what i call ''DETERMINATION'' ... no no, i just wanna stretch my ''determination'' to the limit and not ''syiok-sendiri '' ...:p

I've recorded quite a number of songs actually.... all are mandarin songs actually, ranging from 靠岸, 戒情人, 痴心绝对,手放开,远走高飞 and so on .... Meanwhile, i would like to clarify here too that i've never ever composed any songs ... reason being that the last time i uploaded a song here, a lot of ppl thought that i composed the song...hehe....anyway, if u insist on thinking so...emm....feel free to do so...

ok...enuf crap.....amongst those songs that i've tried singing...i like the 我只是想要 by 陈伟联 the most ...at least for the time being... There are 2 versions for my recording, namely one with and the other without guitar...

before u go any further, it is highly advisible to leave now if u can't stand listening to ''vibrator''.........

-click HERE for the ''qing chang'' version (WARNING : IT's HIGHLY, EXCESSIVELY, EXTREMELY ''SHAKY'' & VIBRATING)

-or HERE for the guitar version.

Last but not least, i think this will be the last time i'm uploading a song here. Meanwhile, the next few articles will be ..emm..controversial and ..explosive...hehe..gonna be damn fiery again...
stay tuned !

无虾鱼也好?

2006-02-28T17:50:00.000+01:00

中午
十二时
空荡肚子大闹着
一定要吃红虾大餐
否则决不罢休

一怔
冰箱里头
挤满了红头鲤鱼
却毫无红鲜大虾
愣住了该如何是好?

再怔
腥腥且诱人的虾味
扑鼻而来
(我何时到了市场?)
鲜红且艳丽的群虾
强暴着我的注目

''老板! 来半斤虾!''
(是谁?为何如此熟悉?)

三怔
悠然而觉
原来无虾鱼也好
在我的人生哲理里面
根本就不存在

-栩-

Poland - PART 2 : KRAKOW & POLISH COUSINES

2006-02-26T22:10:00.000+01:00

Krakow is reputed to be the 2nd largest city in Poland after Warsaw. To that, it's impossible for me to testify as i've not brought along any measuring equipments with me..:P
Anyway, i could firmly assert that Krakow is definitely, positively and undoubtedly much more like a tourist destination than Warsaw. Reason being as following :

It's the feel..u know dude
yeah...the feel...
wow...the feel....
oh yeah...the feel....
come on...feel it...yeah
(chorus x99)

We travelled all the way from Warsaw to Krakow by train. The whole journey took us more than 3 hours .... and being the so-called ''Malaysian-Flag-Carriers'' in Europe, we tried the utmost to live up to that billing by burying our heads in books all the way. If anything is to be the proof, the following pictures speak for themselves .....:p..ok dude, i lied about the ''all the way'' thingy, but we did read while taking pictures of ourselves...hehe...ohh ya, we did have a ''certain degree'' of fun discussing bout the right way to sing ....as in how to sing using the ''perut'' instead of the ''throat''....

Now i shall not go into details as in what Krakow is like .... well, it has castles, churches, tourists bla bla bla ..so on and so forth .....In short, to say that Krakow has the most tantalizing attractions for sightseeing is somewhat exaggerating, but i guess it's defnitely not too much to say that it has picturesque views.....

I LOVE THESE PICTURES !!!

Personally, i reckon that travelling is not travelling if you refrain yourself (somehow by giving all those excuses ranging from expensive prices to ''no mood la'') from trying out the local dishes. There's simply no reason at all not to fork out a few more bucks to try those special stuffs out, especially when chances are, it's unlikely that we'll visit the place ever again. Luckily, i have mates who think the same way i do :). So, first stop : BEER TASTING

It started off as ''Candle-Light-Beer -Tasting-Dinner''....
HOWEVER
It ended on a high note as ''Discussion of ALG-BACHELORS-L-Ps''.... ( u r entitled to ur own imagination and interpretation of ''L-P'')

Traditional Polish Cuisines are really not bad...not bad at all ....just by taking a look at the pictures now and thinking back about the food retrospectively is adequate to make the saliva flows.... damn ....... i'm ''wet'' again.... i mean mouth-watering lah..what do u think ???

Shown below are merely SOME of the local dishes that we have tried..yeah..they are just SOME of them...:)

Last but not least ,ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the last 2 pictures of the day...

Wiyang's Pic looks 101% like a passport photo...lucky dude...can
save on photo next time
when wanna make passport ..:p

VS

that's what i call
''sebiji tahi atas snow'' :p
ohh,btw...that's Kian Hong

NOW, vote for the funniest pic of those 2 !!!! hehehehe.....
enuf pics for the day, otherwise this blog will be turned into a photoblog liao....hahaha

Poland - PART 1 : WARSAW

2006-02-23T23:08:00.000+01:00

After a lengthy and hectic 4th term which was jam-packed with unexpected happenings along the way (especially towards the end of it), the much-awaited winter holidays have ultimately knocked on the door.

It kicked off *officially* with a trip to Poland, which also marked the 8th European country that i've visited in the last 2 years . Queer but true, i've not really done any research about this particular country prior to it, but it turned out just as fine as any other trips could be. To unroll the curtain, let's take a look at the VIP's of this trip:

1) The vastly-experienced ''old Horse'' , Tan Wi Yang

2) The ultimate gal's magnet of ALG, Tan Kian Hong

3) and of coz, the one and only me, Chuah Teong Hee..:P

Poland, as suggested by its name, is indeed a ''porous land''. If i were to compare the road condition of it with the other 7 other european countries that i've been to, i would rate it as one the worst without the slightest hesitance or compunction. The abysmal condition of the road, coupled with the thick snow, have made strolling in Warsaw and Krakow a ''messy'' experience, albeit a pleasant one. If u are travelling to any of the attractions... say Ausschwitz or the Salt Mine, it's a miracle not to feel greasy after a 1-2 hours ''gallop'' on the car.

Our 'first and last' destination was Warsaw, the capital of Poland. Appealing as the name may sound, it's actually a fairly boring city with virtually nothing special for sightseeing.
Perhaps that's partially due to the idea that ''european cities are similar'' which is getting entrenched in my subconscious mind slowly but steadily nowadays.

Anyway, as the saying goes : there're no boring places, there're only boring ppl ...
so after all, Warsaw was not as boring or as dull as u might think... or should i say, Warsaw was very much alive with us there ??? oracles knows....

A picture says a thousand words, so i'll let the pictures do the trumpeting :

Who says u have to face the camera whilst taking pics
in oder to have nice photos ???

Wi Yang and Kian Hong were too excited after having seen me ''slipping n falling into the snow'' or ''pok kai'' just a few minutes ago b4 taking this pic ...

that ''special'' pic is still with either one of them..so u guys dun have the luxury to see it now....Schade !!

n now last pic of the day which tells us the reality of this world : never trust ur own frens, for they might attack u when u least expect them to..:p

to sum ''Warsaw'' up, travelling is at times similar to eating. One doesn't always need a sumptuous 5-star course to enjoy a meal to the fullest, one just needs the right ambience.
In this case, it means the right partners.

ps: coming up next Krakow, Ausschwitz and Salt Mine.

I'm A SUPERMAN ......

2006-02-01T19:44:00.000+01:00

Your results:
You are Superman

Superman		85%
The Flash		80%
Green Lantern		70%
Robin		65%
Wonder Woman		60%
Spider-Man		55%
Supergirl		55%
Hulk		55%
Iron Man		45%
Catwoman		40%
Batman		30%

You are mild-mannered, good,
strong and you love to help others.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test

Chinese New Year

2006-01-29T01:31:00.000+01:00

just a short entry this time.....not really in the mood to blog.....

冬去除旧送金鸡
春至立新迎灵犬

Horse Arrive Work Done
Step Step High Rise
Year Year Got Fish
One Road Smooth Wind
Heart Think Work Done
Dragon Horse Sperm God
New Year Enter Step
Gong Xi Fa Cai

p/s: just in case u don't understand , they are translated directly from mandarin

我的天使

2006-01-22T21:02:00.000+01:00

我的天使
有落雁沉鱼之容
有闭月羞花之貌
有爱笑的眼睛
还有那女中豪杰之风

可惜
有了地利
却少了天时
有了天时
却又少了地利

我不能强求
但我不能不牵肠的
是你明天的梦是否有我
我不能不挂肚的
是我明天的天空还依然有你

我能做的
只是用最真诚的心
把一切变得简单
把一切看得透彻
让一切顺其自然

但愿人长久
千里共婵娟
这重不起眼的名句
我终于明白了

-栩-

Syiok Sendiri

2005-12-27T12:15:00.000+01:00

WARNING : THE FOLLOWING CONTENT IS DEEMED TO BE HIGHLY INAPPROPRIATE FOR THOSE WHO MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO DIGEST THE IDEA OF ''SYIOK SENDIRI''. THE AUTHOR SHOULD NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE OR WHATSOEVER SHOULD THE UNEXPECTED HAPPENS.

Thanks to Yi Ling, i got this idea of recording my singing and subsequently uploading it to my blog. At the point of typing this, i'm already done with the song, but not after umpteen trials and some hilarious moments involving my german housemate...:)..hehe, anyway, my song is far from ''einwandfrei''(German: perfect) and all i can say is, it takes much more solo efforts beyond imagination to produce a real flawless piece.

I actually planned to kao tim the song last night, straight away after coming back from Karlsruhe. With fervent enthusiasm and knowing that there should be no one around since it's christmas, i grabbed my guitar, along with my laptop and webcam (the mic is built in one lah) .... and went out to the living room to sing my heart out. Though it's winter, it's unbelievably warm in the living room owing to the heater. At a certain point, it took off my shirt without me realising it ...:p....

And at one shot, when i was almost done with my song... My german housemate came back and it was just a matter of split seconds when our eyes crossed.... :p

If u were him, what would u think of a guy sitting ''topless-ly'' in WINTER in front of his own webcam in the living room with a guitar and uncombed hair with a few flies above it ?? perverted ??? sexy???? hahahahaha.......

I was on the brink of giggling embarrassingly, but i managed to hold myself back and pretended to be normal.... ''Merry Christmas'' was the first word coming out of my mouth....hehe....darn funny la at that time....

He actually stopped by and listened to me sing....knowing that he's a music idiot, i told him i like playing guitar a lot...bla bla bla and acted like a pro (damn) and he really believed that i'm a pro !!! wakakakaka..... anyway, i had to stop playing after like 5 minutes...otherwise he would have known that i was actually doin this ''syiok sendiri'' stuff...:p

For those of u who might wanna listen to my song, click here. As i said, it's difficult to record a flawless piece ...this is just the ''best'' that i could do, albeit with a lot of ''zhao yim'' (off-pitch) and undesirable background noises....
anyway, dun download it if u can't handle heart attack and off-pitch song..:p

23

2005-12-17T10:25:00.000+01:00

That's it, my 2nd birthday in Germany.....

I remember writing an article last year straight away after my birthday, and to be precise, exactly one day after my 22nd birthday. So here i am once again, sitting on the same spot in my room, repeating the same feat with the same old but evergreen compaq laptop whilst trying nonchalantly to flip through the virtual pages of the previous years in a retrospective manner.

Improbable as it may sound, i actually believe that i've grown much more in the previous year than the 22 years before it. Perhaps the confluence of various factors, both extrinsic and intrinsic alike, have had a subtle but great influence on me.

With the things i've seen, with the experiences i've gone through, with the moves i've taken, with the decisions i've made and with this and that happening along the way, you can't expect me to be the same person that i used to be.

I remember asking myself on a regular basis : is it actually worthwhile to sacrifice this for the sake of that ?
but now i'm telling myself : i'll not question it anymore but rather, i'll make it worthwhile.

I remember telling myself : How nice would it be if i were to study locally and to have all those mamak stall experiences, chilling out with familiar faces and so on ...
but now i'm telling myself : How nice would it be if i were to be able to do the things that i could't do back there and experience the things that i couldn't possibly experience locally.

and i also remember making wishes on each and every birthday that i've had before this, only to have either been let down or to have forgotten completely about it after a fortnight. That is why i opted for not making any wishes this particular year, but rather setting targets for myself.

Of course, i do still feel down and get frustrated with things once in a while, but i recover much more swiftly and incipiently after that than ever.To be frank, i just realised this actually...hehehe

Ohh ya, perhaps it's time to look more aggresively for a GF ?? :p

它

2005-12-04T00:29:00.000+01:00

深夜里

四眼凝视着它
暮地一觉
近年的点点滴滴
沥沥在目

原来它
陪伴着我浪迹天涯
并肩于无数的战场上厮杀
坎坷之道崎岖之路
皆由它与我为伍

原来它
虽不懂雄心壮志
却有匡扶宇宙之''器'
虽没经天纬地之才
却实有翻天覆云之''料''

它
我的快马
我的铅笔盒

-栩-

Auslandspraktikum

2005-11-28T23:54:00.000+01:00

For those who are pursuing their tertiary education in Germany, the word ''Auslandspraktikum''(APK) should serve as nothing more than a normal mundane jargon. Basically, it refers to an internship in a foreign country with germany being the reference point. This also means spending aroung 6 months acquaring practical training in industry whilst exploring a wholenew environment, gaining direct access to the wealth of other traditions & cultures, and being pleasantly prone to pleasant, albeit unexpected events for that span.

Thrilling and interesting as it may sound, the JPA scholars in germany are, for some unforseen reasons, not allowed to do so. Anyway, i'm not sure if the words ''not allowed'' are appropriate to describe the situation. Reason being that we are, in actuality, NOT prohibited from it, but if we were to insist on doing so, we would not be paid the allowance for that particular period whilst undergoing APK overseas. Frankly, that equates a huge amount of money. After all, imposing this ''temporary suspension of allowance'' is simply and undisputedly tantamout to disapproval. One needs not be a genius to realise that.

Queer but true, perhaps owing to my own stupidity, i struggle to comprehend the logic that lurks beneath this move. There are a lot of undisclosed sources saying all sorts of things about why we should not go for APK, for examples :

1) We might ''forget'' the german language, had we spent a few months outside the country.

2) We are assigned the task of squeezing every drop of the juice from the sponge of
Germany, and hence we should utilise every chance of an internship in Germany to the
uppermost.

3) We should not cross the ''preset-boundary'' as there are already ''ambassadors'' in other
countries to learn the existing technology there.

Now i would LOVE to hypnotize myself into believing that those sources are unreliable, coz these suggestions and the reasonings reflect the naiveness and shortsigntedness that come with them. If there's a fear of losing the complete command of the german language, why sent us to a country with a foreign language in the first place ?? I don't deny that the command of it might be affected a bit, but after all, 6 months is not that long. On the other hand, we actually have the chance to sharpen the razor of the command of another language that's being used in that foreign country. And to the 2nd and 3rd suggestion, it's even more far-fetched. Bear in mind that learning a technology is not like doing maths. While 1+1=2 is always true in maths, 50+50 might only be 75 or even 60 in the technology transfer thingy. And how bout the priceless experiences of an APK overseas ??

Anyway, the argument about whether one should go for the so-called Auslandspraktikum is NOT the same as whether one should be allowed to do so in the first place. Germany itself is not short of or to be precise, far from short of world-class titans with the likes of Porsche, Audi, Mercedez, BMW, VW, Bosch, Siemens and so on. Put that aside, meanwhile it's inevitable for one to ponder about whether APK is a boon or a bane. It's rather controversial, i suppose. I would just say:

-While one might struggle under a certain circumstance, the others might actually thrive on
it.

-While a situation might be of adverse effects to certain ppl, it might be a blessing in disguise to
other ppl.

The way i see it, after years of hype and wrangling about this seemingly complicated matter, it eventually boils down to 2 simple questions :

-Why settle for mediocre when things could easily be done in a much better way?

-Why impose so much control when this on the other hand could mean stifling one's teething
determination to step out of the comfort zone in transcending one's boundary?

龙虫之谈

2005-11-21T10:52:00.000+01:00

古往今来
龙乃神威之物
虫却恰恰相反
但我不以为然

能龙之虫
胸怀大志但不形于色
身怀绝技却隐于凡夫
只待天赐翻天覆云之机
一举直冲云霄

能虫之龙
洞悉天地万变
临危应变
且能因虫而龙
也能因龙而虫

龙虫之别
不知而自居知之者
肤浅也
只能解其半而自以为是之者
迂腐也

-栩-

Laser Technology.....

2005-11-19T22:33:00.000+01:00

just a short entry for this time .......
life's freakingly hectic nowadays...... partly thanks to myself..:p
well, at least for this couple of weeks.....
anyway, just done my 2nd of 4 presentations within 4 weeks few days ago ..... the topic this time was '' laser technology'' ...... Instead of confining myself to the conventional way of explaining what's laser all about, i've done it by ''deliberately'' straying to the otherwise unrelated topic of '' LIGHT SABER'' which is in actuality non-existent.....
a picture says a thousand words....so the 6 pics below say 6000 words bout it...:)

1) a light saber can be used to convince the assailants that NO means NO.....:p

2) it can be used to trim the hedge !!

3) to cut and toast the bread in one stroke .... hahaha

4) to cut thru the PVC pipe

5) to light a cigarette

6) or even to cook COFFEE !!!! :p

Honestly, i still cant believe that i've used those pics for my presentation.....hahahaha.....at least, for once, i've managed to struck a chord of humor with germans ...:)

神话

2005-11-13T00:04:00.000+01:00

神话
顾名思义
能人之所不能其一也
独特而不随世漂浮其二也
凌风而屹立不倒其三也

神话里
无风则难有兴风作浪
无浪则难有波涛颠簸
风与浪两者缺一
焉能创出佳话?

然人乃奥妙之物
局万物之尊者人也
但愿你我不惧风浪
但愿你我活在当下活出自我
创出你我之神话

-栩-

The Journey of a Conquest

2005-11-10T20:33:00.000+01:00

it was thursday and it's the day i was supposed to give a presentation in english about ''mechatronics overview'' ..... for the sake of telling , i'm the only one from ''Mechatronics Engineering'' and the only Non-German joining this ''technical english'' class as it's actually meant for those who are doin the course ''Automotive System Engineering''......if i were to explain y i'm doin this, i would have to trudge back to those early decisions at the beginning of this sem...so i'm not going to do that.....anyway, SINCE i'm the only one from M.E and SINCE the American lecturer wants us to do the presentations in an entertaining way rather than an informative one.....i thought...well...i could raise some controversies because i'm really not bad at it...hehehehhehe....:p

so i started off by saying something like.....

'' if u do not know very well bout Mechatronics..u ought to be worried now...b'coz over the next few minutes...i'm going to brief u guys about it which perhaps more importantly will either MAKE or BREAK ur love for A.S.E .....u guys might have made the biggest wrong choice in ur lives ...bla bla bla....''

and guess what.....haha....my presentation was a success and the American lecturer even singled it out for flattery and praises ...to me, it's indeed a much-needed pat on the back ...... and he even sent me an email which sounds like this :

''You began as well as any native speaker that I can imagine - a good, friendly and inviting introduction indeed! Your voice was brilliant and clear and your use of inflection was outstanding. Your volume was varied and you took natural breaks - which all combines to make your topic easier to follow and attractive. You were speaking quite quickly, but were nonetheless completely understandable (for me...). Your use of rhetoric/real questions was first rate. The vocabulary in use was high-quality and varied, yet not too high-level for most of the audience to have followed. Superior slides with animation and colors and cartoons - again quite on the level of a native-speaker professional talk.

Compared to all presentations that I have seen at the FH, you are certainly in the top 2%. Perhaps it helps having grown up in your country - the educational system there and the obvious stress on learning multiple languages has led to your much more natural sounding use of English - which sets you apart from most Germans that I hear. Your 'attitude' of brightness, a bit of showmanship and energy is absolutely not a typical German trait.''

after reading that, i suddenly felt that i have understood something but could not get wat's it exactly... a day later, i was on my way to a class when i met 2 chinese guys heading towards me.... from gut instinct, i could tell that they are from china...and i made the first move to talk to them.......after chatting for a few minutes....they told me that they were a bit surprised to find someone from malaysia in germany who could speak fluent chinese , but somehow sounds like a taiwanese.....hahahaha..:p

Thinking bout those events now retrospectively, i suddenly understand something which has been lurking around for quite a while already, albeit with a seemingly subtle sense of uncertainty.....
It seems like the main reason that's been holding me back from going all out to ''conquer'' the german language itself is me myself .......
well...u see....human mind is evasive...it likes to remain complacent with hazy notions about certain things rather than grasp the import of difficult concepts .... i dunno if it's true for u but it's definitely true for me at times ......had it not been those above-mentioned events, i wouldn't even think of penning my thoughts bout this matter down at this moment...

I guess it's clear to me that the fear of losing my command of other languages has subconciously held me back from progressing forward with the pace that i'm supposed to be moving with ...... i frown at the idea of letting something getting the better of me, but sometimes we have to let pride takes the second place to the facts of life ...... for those who are wondering, this points to the equation of life (created by me....:p) which states that there're equal gains and losses in everything that we do...

in this case (beim idealen Fall...:p), to really flourish in german language, one has to think the german way, write the german way and talk the german way......and the way i see it, it comes more or less at the expense of other languages that one has already had under one's belt ...... apparently, i'm not willing at all to give up any bit of my command of english and chinese (2 of which i deem to be most important of all) for the sake of german language...... dun get me wrong , a good command of an additional language will most probably give me the edge over the others when it matters....but i oso think that this could only be the case if i'm equally good in other languages as well........

and guess wat ????? the worst thing is ....... i'm having the feeling that my english and chinese are slipping away slowly from me....and yet my command of german doesn't grow in tandem with the rate of decline in those languages ...... anyway, i will not give up...far from it :)....i'm still trying as hard as i could to amalgamate those languages under one roof, though the journey seems tortuous....granted, i might end up nowhere and eventually get myself entangled btw those languages .......anyway, as someone who's struggling to strike a balance btw those languages, my stubborn innerself rather believe in this :

to love is to risk not being loved in return
to try is to risk failure
to hope is to risk disappointment
but risks must be taken
because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing at all

T歌之王

2005-10-21T10:46:00.000+02:00

每当跨入茅厕
在宽衣解带的当儿
裸露的　不只是血肉之躯
伴随而来的　是T歌之王的蝉变

这里的赤子之'声'
没有被驱使的使命感
没有被众目睽睽的逼压感
却有着一股羞涩且独特的原味

无人吹奏的伴乐
却因淅沥沥流水声的衬托
在那潜潜幽幽　似有似无之间　
显得婉转而婵娟

辽然一觉
T歌之王高歌一曲之时
才是　最震撼人心的
才是　最悦耳动听的
才是　最百听不腻的

－栩－

Dream of a Child - Now and then

2005-10-19T00:23:00.000+02:00

1st Assumption : The following conversation takes place at one of the corners on this earth in the year 2006. An idea strucks a group of 3 childen in a manner similar to that of an asteroid hitting the earth. The use of the names below does not bear any resemblance to anyone.(dun believe?? click on their names to see for urselves..:p) Having said that, any similarity with the names is purely coincidental...ehem

Yi Ling : yo banana boy, what do u wanna be when u grow up ??
Kok Keong : emmmm....i wanna be a banana seller .....haha.. no lah....i wanna be
the best engineer on this mother earth when i grow up !!
Yi Ling : wah(x5)...wat an ambitious banana....anyway, i'm not any less-ambitious
than u leh...my dream is to be the first female engineer to win the Nobel
Prize ...
Jia Jin : u 2 are damn lame leh....ambitions like that ???ceh... easy lah....where got like me ??? i wanna become the chief engineer who'll be in charge of all the other engineers le....

2nd Assumption : Yi Ling is 3 years old, Kok Keong is 4 years old and Jia Jin is 3 months old (might be too young in reality to be able to tok like this, but heck...just an assumption k??)

Kids are known to have the intangible gift to point out the simplest sides of complicated matters which more often than not, go beyond the computational power of the adults. They do, they really do.......

On one hand, we can basically laugh and shrug off the conversation above as something cute but trivial between kids.... On the other hand, it actually reveals a complicated situation which is apparently deep-rooted in our society...

Just open your eyes and your ears to the kiasu world around u nowadays...... a kid as young as 3 years old can tell u that he/she wants to be an ENGINEER when he/she doesn't even know what it's all bout .... the parents might be proud to have such an ambitious son/daughter with the fabulous far-sightedness....but the way i see it, there's something wrong with this society....

When i was young, and to be precise, very young....

I dreamt of being a glamorous singer after listening to Andy Lau's songs ..
I dreamt of being an actor after watching a Jackie Chan's movie..
I dreamt of being a flying man after getting to know Superman
I dreamt of being the saviour of the earth after watching Indiana Jones...
I dreamt of being the '' Lao Fu Zhi'' after reading the comic...

U can definitely say that mass media had an impact on my dreams while i was young, but i dreamt of things a kid normally dreams of ..... i'm not saying that
being ambitious at a young age is a bane, but before the threshold or the so-called transitional period, it's weird for a child not to dream like a child..i suppose...

Queer but true, it's not difficult to see why this is happening around us.....
we have kids as young as 5 years old attending 3 or 4 tuition classes nowadays....
besides, they have to perform a lot of ''obligatory duties'' such as learning this and that (languages, maths, music bla bla bla) ....All these, coupled with the fact that they are always being brainwashed with the notion that ''u must become an engineer or a doctor to be successful'', have led us to where the society is...

I do not blame the parents for wanting the best for their children .... at times, under certain circumstances, choices are made even b4 u are aware of it ......
I'm just astonished to note the vast difference between the dream of a child, now and then.....

寒的沉思

2005-10-13T00:08:00.000+02:00

寒夜
独自一人仰卧床上
翻来覆去
彻夜难眠

在空白的脑海里
作着无谓的徘徊
酝酿着白昼的奔波
斟酌着对己的诺言

是疲惫吧让我想休息
是寒冷吧让我想取暖
是思念吧让我的思绪被拨弄着
是时局吧让我的神经蹦得很紧
抑或是灵感吧让我想再次落笔

终究
只想再次告诉自己
冰冻三尺终非一日之寒
不经一番寒彻骨
焉得梅花扑鼻香

-栩-

back to germany and stuffs.....

2005-10-11T23:10:00.000+02:00

I've always said this : time flies .........
whilst it's resonating inside my somewhat preoccupied mind at the point of editing this entry , i can't help but marvel at how true this is once again....

9 weeks (or a little more than a couple of months) ago, i was enthusiastic bout going back to MAS and the prospects of meeting up my family and friends alike, be it new or old-buddies....
and guess wat....
without realising it, i've already come back to Germany for 2 weeks and i'm currently trying to soak myself with a hectic 4th sem schedule....

emm.... first day back to the ''Hochschule'' was kinda refreshing.... As a matter of fact, it's been around 1/2 year since i last set foot on the proximity....reasons being that i have had my first internship somewhere else for the whole 3rd sem .... somehow i realised that i have a completely different feeling coming back to the Hochschule than that of the first 2 semesters....

The fact that the unattractive outward appearance of the Hochschule doesn't bother me as much as during the first 2 sems, if not not at all, has surprised even me myself.....guess i've ultimately come to understand that the germans place more importance on substance rather than form without compromising the quality ...... i remember one of my frens from London saying something like : Germany is a country which does not crave for recognition from the others by carrying out mindless pursuits, but instead earns them thru showing the others that they have the capability to do a job without flowery decorations...... it suddenly seems so true..

and after going for a few lectures, i'm delighted that i could understand almost 90% of them !! this is definitely a breakthrough for me personally !! anyway, there's still a long long way to go until i could really blurt out questions like a native speaker in the german language spontaneously....so in a way, it's still extremely tough.....talking bout that, to ask questions in front of a bunch of foreigners and with a foreign language is a challenge itself .... sometimes, this has more to do with confidence rather than anything else ..... i could sense the confidence emanated from the germans while they speak and more often than not, they really ask stupid questions !! :p ..... so that says it all ...

emm.....btw, i'm taking more subjects this sem than i ought to ..... i'm doin that because i have the freedom to do so since we can basically arrange the timetable for ourselves starting from the 4th sem ..... besides, i've other plans for the upcoming semesters.... other than that, i wanna try to step out of the so-called comfort zone and transcend the personal boundaries of myself.....this is by no means trying to show off as i've a lot of seniors doin that successfully .....
on the other hand, i'm trying to prevent complacency from reigning as this could mean jeopardy........

last but not least, i'm actually in a rush while typing this...:p...so i guess some sentences have not been structured properly.....anyway, dun give it a damn..:p

朋友

2005-09-30T14:32:00.000+02:00

一些朋友
一旦交了犹如结拜兄弟
肝胆相照皓似明月
倚天屠龙焉能与其争锋?

也有些朋友
亲切笑容里藏着尖锐无比的巨刀
偶然使起九阴白骨爪
任尔有九阳真功也抵挡不住

又有些朋友
侃起大山时头头是道
付诸实行时却只会耍太极拳
只怕其造诣已远胜武当张三丰

而有些朋友
是模棱两可的
见风使陀乃其看家本领
也精通老顽童左右互搏之术

一览身边朋友
观其花花人性之际
仿佛身处金庸武侠小说之境
难道.....我已进入无我的状态 ?

-栩-

p/s : to fully comprehend and grasp the meaning of this article, an extensive understanding
of 金庸武侠小说 is fundamental !!

Traffic Lights = Laughing Stocks ??

2005-09-22T22:32:00.000+02:00

I've dwelt on the thoughts of writing this article for quite a while, but thinking and putting the thoughts down to pen are 2 different things ..... so whilst the inspiration and idea are still with me now, guess it's wise to scribble the idea down before being deserted by it ......

once again, the idea stemmed from the sheer frustration that kicked in whilst being stuck in traffic jam..:)...thanks to the hyper-active brain of mine, i can't help but sigh at the fact that there's been an influx of traffic lights in the proximity of the nearby residential area ,though the need of them clearly remains to be questioned ...

can u believe it ?? there are 4 traffic lights within a stretch of 200-300 meters .... i believe one needs not be a genius to see the hilarious side that lurks beneath, let alone those so-called EXPERTS that buried their heads for days and nights trying to squeeze every single drop of their ingenuity to conjure up an amicable solution for the traffic needs.....

traffic light does indeed solve some traffic problems ... but 4 t. lights within such a short stretch of road creates problems, rather than manoeuvers the traffic more efficiently... worse still, those traffic lights are not synchronized properly as the 1st and the 3rd have the same colour of light simultaneuously, while the same happens with the 2th and 4th... having said that, when it's green for the 1st , it's red for the 2nd...... not forgetting the fact that the distance between them is at most 150 meters ... so it's miraculous to NOT have traffic jams at those junctions, i suppose.....

i'm not an expert (far from it) in any sense regarding matters on solving the traffic jams, but i believe sometimes it requires merely common sense instead of expertise .... rather than putting up needless mechanisms recklessly which might turn out undesirably to be laughing stocks , it might be better to do more research first in bid to manoeuver a situation....

音之韵,乐之传

2005-09-07T17:09:00.000+02:00

某年某月某天某日
一曲清脆的旋律
无息地从远方传来
袅袅娜娜不绝于耳

她之韵
享有独特的风格
忽而快忽而慢
忽而轻忽而重
但无不恰到好处
竟是如此地扣人心弦

赏韵之时一晃而过
知音者既庆幸又感叹
庆幸乃天赐闻韵之良机
感叹乃因赏韵之短暂

此刻将告一段落
但这首歌离休止符还有段距离
不是在此时不知在何时
大约会是在冬季 :)

也从那刻起知音者深信
她之韵蕴藏着无穷潜力
也想祝福韵之她
早日编成流传千古之曲吧
并奢望玄歌声起的那一刻
知音者依然没被遗忘掉

-栩-

VIP....double standard

2005-08-29T16:15:00.000+02:00

I was driving on a busy road in Penang a couple of days ago ..... being stuck in traffic congestions almost everywhere which is so common to the mundane life of fellow penangites, i was trying to be as patient as i could.....then on one occasion, i looked to the rear mirror and realised that everybody was trying to make way for something....

the first thing that came up to my mind was...''it's an ambulance''....

the second picture that sprang up was.... ''it's fire brigade''.......

it was until 5 seconds later when it became clear to me that some so-called VIPs, being escorted by some superbikes of those policemen... were coming up from afar....well, as soon as they passed by...i straight away stepped hard on the acceleration pedal ... trying to seize the rare chance and capitalize on the ''openings'' carved open by them ....emm ... doin that has given me the impression that the policemen were somehow escorting me as well...hehehe

anyway, any sense of pleasure was promptly overwhelmed by displeasure when i learnt that i was almost hitting a top speed of 120 km/h whilst the speed limit permitted was only 80km/h on that road .... queer but true, i wasn't afraid of being fined for speeding as those policemen and VIPS ahead of me were travelling equally fast, if not faster.... and that's the MAIN and PREDOMINANT point of this ENTRY !!!

well....i guess that reveals something of a fundamental fact about the way double standards are being practised here..... whilst defiantly claiming that all road users must adhere to the speed limit, those law makers fail to realise that EVERYBODY, be it Teong Hee or Sammyvellu or William Hung ....must abide by the regulations enforced.....

Someone told me that those VIPS actually have the so-called privilege to speed on the road as every decision they have to make might worth 2 million dollars....any delay , albeit only for a few minutes would be fatal......but the questions are:

1) does a mere ''prospective'' 2 million dollars grant them the right to be somehow no longer entitled to the rules and regulations??

2) does that mean they should be given special treatment when the others are frustrated being stuck in similar predicament or plight ??

I believe the fact that double standards are being practised on the road has rendered talks of ''road safety'' campaigns virtually meaningless ..... to lead efficiently, one must lead by examples and not always have the privilege of practising double standards, not forgetting that they are actually perpetuating the concept '' u can speed without respect for regulations under certain circumstances'' which when being falsely interpreted could lead to undesirable repercussions...

ok la..it's not that serious la....but u know where am i going ..:P

留学. 旅程

2005-08-16T18:55:00.000+02:00

转瞬间, 在德国也有段日子了...
呕心沥血, 总算挨过了初步的煎熬 ...
依稀记得披上异乡留学外衣之初...
我曾问自己, 留学后的我还会是我吗... ?
也不时问自己, 这是否条康庄大道... ??

转瞬间, 已到过许多许多地方 ...
以往的世界只有大马之大 ...
但当一幕一幕的国外景物呈现眼前 ...
也当我在个陌生的环境成长时 ...
才懂得以后的世界有着天壤之别...

转瞬间, 我又回马来渡假了...
表面上一切还是一样 ...
实际上一切还是一样吗... ?
是万物之变让我深思 ...
还是看世界的角度已然不同... ?

异乡留学之旅, 如人生宝贵一课 ...
教了我有得必有失之道理 ...
是否康庄大道 ?? 以后自有定论 ...
留学后的我还会是我吗... ?
一切唯有顺其自然....

-栩-

回顾过去,正视现在,展望未来......

2005-07-14T22:12:00.000+02:00

过去.....
无知认为高山高却非高不可攀...
海水深却非深不可探...
有喜有怒有哀也有乐....
种种点滴在转眼间已成回忆....
是时空巨轮的痕迹....
还是无法忘怀的情节....

过去, 诞生了现在.....
我....依然单枪匹马地在人生舞台上....
却毫无半丝恐惧....
满怀壯志, 很想有番惊天动地的干戈...
无奈.... 却似有心有余而力不足之惆怅....

现在, 蕴藏了未来的玄机....
充满了无穷无尽的未知数...
扑索着无人知晓的迷离...
我只想在踏到的足迹上....
潵下味道浓厚的一泡尿...
挥一挥衣袖, 不带走一片云草...
令人颇有''长栩到此一游''之意...

-栩-

p/s: what the hell am i writing????

BANANAism......

2005-07-08T23:42:00.000+02:00

WARNING :This article might contain INFLAMMATORY remarks about a discerning ''fruit'''. Whilst the author believes that it is unlikely to trigger an enmity against ''banana'', he shall NOT be liable in any way should the unexpected happens.......:)

Thanks to the widely-chanted slogan of ''globalisation'', a good command of English has been deemed indispensible if one is to survive and thrive in the challenges ahead ...... along the wave of it, a new syndrome of ''Banana-ism'' has been cropping up with such a pace that more and more of the so-called BANANAs( 喻为''香蕉人'' ) loom suddenly from nowhere into existence.... queer but true, we, the ''龙的传人'' has been particularly plagued by this......

why do i use the word ''plagued''?? u see, whilst ENG cannot be disputed to be the fundamental interactional tool, we have simply gone overboard by making it THE ONE AND ONLY language to master.....having said that, it's not strange to note that many chinese nowadays no longer know the chinese language....worse still, some of them *^ notably the Anglophiles^* who have mastered the English Language, exploit every single opportunity to showcase to the others their prowess in it and even unashamedly proclaim to the others that they can't even write their own names in chinese.....:0
the underlying question is...come on...are u really proud of it??

let's take a look at the following examples :
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Case Study 1 : an American who doesn't know english -------------->>>
u are lost on a street in washington .... walking towards u is an American and u try to seek help from him....but much to your chagrin and surprise, he answers u like this:
"我虽是鬼佬, 却不会英语, 只会华语, 然而, 请别排挤我, 我不是大便........."

Case Study 2 : a chinese who doesn't know chinese --------------->>>
an american ,who has learnt chinese language for 21 years, bumps into a chinese pedestrian on a street ..... the ang mo is lost and he needs help...so with bursting confidence, he asks for direction in his fluent chinese, expecting to impress the chinese guy with his dazzling command of the language....however, the chinese answers:
''yo yo yo man...slow slow......what the hell are u talking man.....i dun speak chinese man...yo yo yo ....check it out ...i am banana la..... so tok english la...k?? k??..."
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In case study 1, if we look from the perspective of the chinese guy, i'm sure it's pretty surprising to note that the ANGMO doesn't know english at all .......similarly in case study 2, the ANGMO should be quite overwhelmed too by the fact that the chinese guy doesn't speak chinese, shouldn't he??
coming to europe has reinforced my view on this matter....u can sense the impression that's emanated when ppl suddenly realise that though u r a chinese, u dun know chinese at all.......
one may argue that this might be inevitable with the thrust of globalisation...but my view is..if globalisation is to be attached to every single facet of our lives, then chances are it will be quoted out of its original text and we'll lose our identity in the process as well.....

thus, i believe that it's actually a natural responsibility for us to perpetuate our mother tongue to the next generation.....but first, we need to permeate the mind with the correct concept....my bottom line is.. a chinese should at least know the language and it does not necessarily interfere with one's nationality.....
i'm a malaysian, to be precise a malaysian chinese and i'll never, ever denied that fact...
if there's a football match btw china and mas , i would by all means support the mas team to the very end, albeit the fact that mas team will 100% be defeated ,most probably by a catastrophic scoreline...
but that does not mean i'm wavering from my above-mentioned pursuit...no..not at all......all i'm trying to say is...my above-mentioned ''natural responsibility'' cannot be juxtaposed to the reference of one's patriotism and nationality.....

all in all, my bottom line is ..chinese should at least know the language.......so ladies and gentlemen, guys and girls....make babies but never groom them into bananas...for we have had our fair share of experience with it.....hahahahahha.....

No INternet again...thanks to the Lightning

2005-07-06T09:05:00.000+02:00

planned to update my blog last week...
but i was being stripped of my chance by the rare thunderstorm in Germany....
thanks to the lightning that strucked my hostel ....the server of the internet is somehow not functioning anymore....
not sure of when it's gonna be fully functional again....since everybody is toiling over the exams now ...so i dun think anybody will give a damn about it...at least for these few weeks....
anyway, i'm writing this entry from the company in which i'm doin my internship ...
hehe...actually not allowed to surf the internet while working...but there's always a loophole in everything and at the end of the day...who cares??
hehe...ok lah...will update as soon as possible if there's a chance to do so...
just to provide an insight into my next article...
it'll be another CONTROVERSIAL one...this time it's something BANANA...!!!!
stay tuned !!!

雨

2005-06-19T21:23:00.000+02:00

雨来了…

雨, 掀起了种种回忆….

雨, 使到我的心久久不能平伏….

雨, 见证了我的坚毅和执着….

雨, 却也唤醒了孰睡的我….

雨停了…

太阳出来了….

太阳, 象征着雨过天晴….

太阳, 洋溢着蓬勃的朝气….

太阳, 也牵带着新的希望….

雨来雨停…

雨欲来而风满楼….

雨欲停却毫无征兆….

花开花谢….

人生又何偿不是这样…..

jogging...my growth with it

2005-06-11T00:10:00.000+02:00

After slacking from jogging for around a few months, i'm here to announce to the world that.................

- the FIRE deep inside me has once again been reignited.....
- the SPIRIT has once again been rekindled......
- and i'm slowly getting the inner-whispering-self back that urges me to stick to this habit........

Jogging has indeed been my idiosyncrasy,or could be said as my acquaintance for the past few years....i'm sure those that are close to me never fail to realise this ......i remember jogging intensively for literally everyday back to the days when i was in INTEC.....having said that, it's not difficult to imagine how fit i was during those days...:)

to be honest, i myself could not comprehend what was the invisible force that stretched me that far during those days ....... and after coming to Germany, i have been slacking around for quite some while .....it's only until one of these days that i refound the drive of jogging and fully comprehend the art of it...

u see...jogging is not about burning those excessive fats and being fit.....
i mean...yes..it is about those things.... but it's also about self-belief, determination and discipline which is by far much more important than burning the fats.........

self-belief and determination...yes...no one could dispute the fact that jogging requires a great deal amount of them......to better one's own record , say 5 km for 2o minutes, one needs to believe in oneself and be really determined, even if it merely means a betterment of only 30 seconds...trust me, it's by no means impossible, but it's somehow a herculean task, i would say .......and u might ask, what has it to do with discipline........well, as simple as that....without a sense of discipline, u won't be able to haul ur ass to go jogging everyday.......and do u think u can go under 20 minutes for 5 km ?? maybe u can if u are born naturally fit but chances are,it's rare.....

through jogging i see a trend in myself....when i jog constantly, i feel like determination ,accompanied by self-confidence is overflowing in myself.... as if water gushing out ferociously from the tap... through it, i have a sense of direction and the belief of achieving my goals ......on the other hand, when i slack from jogging, i feel like being easily contented with life and not wanting to push myself in whatever i do.......all these are particularly and amazingly true when i look back at those days that i jogged constantly and vice versa .........

to sum it up, those who aspire to inspire must perspire.....victory doesn't come knocking on the doors by itself......so let's see when will be the time that i manage to go under 20 minutes for 5 km.....

blogging, what does it mean??

2005-06-05T17:39:00.000+02:00

i was browsing thru my frens' blogs when an idea suddenly pop up from nowhere that prompts me to jot down my thoughts at this moment.....

Blogging has actually gained tremendous popularity amongst the youngsters nowadays and it shouldn't be deemed to be too much to assert that it's become ubiquitious lately.......some people are so engrossed in blogging that they are willing to spend hours sitting in front of the com just to edit and publish photos for ONE entry in their blogs.......this is definitely not meant to disparage my frens' unfailing dedications for blogging and KOK KEONG,YI LING, JIA JIN nope....i'm not talking about u guys..:p..hehehe

NOW what's this jargon ''blogging'' all about ??
Apparently, it differs from person to person.....as for me personally, my initial purpose of setting sail here was to put my english to practice as i'm currently studying in a country where English is commonly regarded as a surplus to mundane life .....later on, i realised that blogging could be an excellent way to jot down one's random thoughts, experiences and visions......and it's definitely nice to be able to do that without straying afar from my initial purpose.....however, i dun concur with the idea of constantly posting photos and short descriptions on one's blog just to gain popularity....and once again, KOK KEONG !!!JIA JIN!!!YI LING!! i'm not talking about u guys!!! hehehehe

those are my ALG comrades here in Germany....they have put in a great deal of efforts and done marvellous , fascinating things to their blogs....as a result, the popularity of their blogs has skyrocketed within a short period.....anyway, i discovered that lately....their blogs are becoming more like advertising mediums for tourist destinations...hehehehehehe.....well...it's just an example of how quantitative change in the acceptance level of a thing could lead to the qualitative change in the role of that thing.....( hehe :) , i'm not looking for troubles with u guys k?? just reckon that it's a perfect example for this statement...hehehe...u guys should be proud of that :p )

come what may, guys...ur blogs will always remain as my all time favourites and it would not budge a little from that .....

(p/s: the writer of this article has engaged the service of the ''fei fu toi'' of germany for safety reasons. This controversial article is expected to cause an uproar from those ''three kings'' of blogging)

YOU

2005-05-25T17:25:00.000+02:00

it's been a while....
it's been some time......
but some things are not meant to be forgotten....
nor to be flushed away from the soul.....

when the day comes ....
when i look into the calendar....
when i see that one special day.....
i can't help but cast away in the ocean of thoughts....

gone are the raining days in the past.....
gone are the beeping sound of your texts......
but the blush on your cheeks will remain.....
and the thorny memories shall continue to prickle ....

losing something that one has never had.....
is more than a torture that one can ever have......
drowning helplessly in the deluge of that particular one....
while not having even a single photo of that one.....

life goes on for you and me...
cloudy hills have hitherto blurred the thoughts...
while you remain stubbornly in me....
i struggle to dwell in you......

and hence....
life is a promise.....
fulfill it....
life is a beauty....
admire it....

From ME to YOU
-teong hee-

2004-12-17T09:49:00.000+01:00

the first day of the 22nd ..... it seems to be an eternity to ''grow'' this ''big'' , but somehow it's undisputedly just a fraction of time ..............

now ppl would normally be excited about their birthdays and make wishes for the coming year during their birthdays ........ somehow , it's quite inconceivable and perplexing as to why i did not feel any different from the other days ?? perhaps that's due to one of the traits of human nature to be vague about certain things , hehe........

looking back to the year 2003/2004 , it's evident to me that personally, a lot of changes have taken place .........i wouldn't want to state all of them one by one..would just say:

there's a change of perspective .........
there's a shift of certain paradigms ............
and there's also an alteration of priorities in my life...........

As the saying goes , a leopard doesn't change its spots....so after all i'm still me , and i'm glad to still be The One and ONLY teong hee :).......

now am i drowned in the deluge of presents during my 22nd-birthday ?? i would say yes , albeit the fact that i received 0 physical present(s)....... the shower of wishes and loves from my friends and family has once again kept me warm during my birthday....after all it's the thought that counts , isn't it ??

Last but not least , perhaps u might be slightly interested in knowing my birthday wish this year...hehe....ask me if u wanna know it..... who knows that i might tell u....

2004-11-29T20:42:00.000+01:00

With the book entitled ''www.marketingtips.com'' within my sight at this very second, i'm suddenly enlightened on the fact that procrastination has once again got the better of me..........
Long have i bought this book..........
Long have i thought of setting my maiden voyage on the matrix of internet.....
and long have i dreamt of creating an empire which could give me the eventual financial freedom.....
but again and again , i have been held back by lack of commitment and procrastination....
now as the studies is getting more and more intense , and the final exam is knocking on the door, i could not help it but to delay my plan once again....
Nevertheless i'm going to make sure that it's the last delay that i will ever have to make.......
to be or not to be, the choice is yours teong hee.... ( i'm a bit siao liao as i'm talking to myself..u guys just have to live with it )
After all, the whole world always steps aside for a man who knows where he's going......

2004-11-03T22:28:00.000+01:00

I'm sitting in front of the com now ... with a few thoughts in my mind , i abruptly feel that life could be so tricky sometimes..... It's somehow like something so easy to foretell , and yet so unpredictable.... wake up, have breakfast , go to school, come back, study , sleep....and it repeats itself monotonously again the next morning when u wake up.....but suddenly something which totally catch u off guard happens...and u feel so loss, as if cast away in an ocean without any boundary ...

Last week , one of my closest seniors experienced one of the biggest shocks of his life ..i suppose... Sad to say , his father passed away suddenly......and the saddest thing of all is that the last time he met his father face to face was like 1 year ago........Notwithstanding extreme sadness and pain , he went back to Mas for his father's Funeral.....try to imagine , what feeling does he have when he reaches his house , only to see that his beloved father is already lying motionless there....

Now to those ppl who haven't gone home for the last 2 years since going overseas for watever reasons, and still dun plan to go back for holidays , perhaps u should reconsider ur option....i'm of course not trying to curse anyone...... i just wanna say , one should weigh his priorities wisely .....Everything must hang in the balance...

always enjoy life to the fullest , as u can never be sure that u have the chance to see the next sunrise........

2004-08-19T11:16:00.000+02:00

If u are a hardcore football fans , u should know it right away when someone mentions R&R......
If u are a student in Gemany , u shouldn't be pondering for more than 0,005 second when someone cites C&A or H&M.....
But if u do not have the slightest idea about what's my definition for P&P , have no worries as u are not going to be penalised for not knowing that :)
Annoucing the two ''must-go'' destinations of Europe , Prague and Paris !!!!
hehe....actually i was thinking of how to write an article about these two places , as i have set foot of these 2 plots recently...and then came bursting out this idea of using the sort of P&P to produce a sense of secrecy,concealment , and thus catching the attention and imparting an urge to the readers to continue on reading .........OK ,ok enuf crap......u got to forgive me for that as i'm trying to be as crappy as possible to live up to the expectation of this corky blog...
well, Prague is basically one of the most beautiful cities that i've been to ...... jam-packed with castles , bridges ,cathedrals and attractive sceneries..... and most importantly , the things are dirt cheap man!!! well , actually not really lah..... perhaps i'm used to Euro so much already , that i could still say cheap when a McDee meal actually costs me around RM28....hehe...
well, if u ask me what's the best thing that happened in Prague when i was there...i would say an incident on the third day of my visit there..... i was walking at OLD TOWN SQUARE with Kian when a strange aura hit my sight.....there was this group of old ppl, mostly germans , walking as slow as snails ...... and in the midst of them , there was a young man disguised like an ''Ah Peh'' and a young gal dressed up like a ''Japanese Idol'' ..... oh hell , they were Kelvin and Yi Ling....haha...they were actually following the tour themselves loh....what the heck...such a contrasting scene is still on my mind after more than 1 week.....hehehe
now what about Paris ..?? u know lah , Eiffel Tower loh.....Arc de Triomphe loh....Exotic food like snails ar..frog legs ar...what lamp cheong ar....and the likes lah
a picture speaks a thousand words.....take a look for ur self at http://kiamhu.fotopages.com

2004-07-07T12:58:00.000+02:00

A lot of people are always deemed to be blessed with good fortune in their lives, while many others curse their own luck repeatedly every time they failed to get what they want.
While people might be ignorant of what they already have , they never fail to notice what they don’t have…..
and while people constantly think that others are luckier than them , they never seem to understand what the others have lost in the process or the so-called luck….
It has indeed been the norm , or rather human nature , to judge a thing from it’s surface and to make wild generalization about certain things……However , the truth is that…..There are always pros and cons in everything , and I mean EVERYTHING, that we do…..
While there might be gains , there are definitely losses somewhere else….
And that’s what I call “ THE EQUATION OF LIFE”…..
A lot of people think that their peers are luckier than them to be awarded some kind of scholarships to study overseas , but just how many of them could see the relentless efforts that have been poured out and the sacrifice of innumerable tv-watching hours behind the stories….
Besides , while one might have the chance to study in a top University overseas , but he/she never get the opportunity to experience the conventional local undergraduates’ lives or the well-known ‘mamak stall chit-chat’ with fellow friends ……
On one hand , while staying abroad , one can easily go around backpacking in the respective continent or region ( say Europe) , but on the other hand the amount of time one spends with the family is certainly far less as compared with the others..... You call it inevitable or unavoidable, but the fact that lurks beneath it spells great loss….the parents turn older , the brothers and sisters are suddenly grown-up and things back there have changed…Don’t u think that it could be described as massive loss in compensation for massive gain?
Another example of me personally , coming to Germany has made it possible for me to have a good grasp of the German language itself….but at the same time , I have gradually lost my fluency not only in English ,but Chinese and Malay as well….Once again , there’s no total gain or total loss……
So what’s the conclusion?? The next time u think that u r unlucky or others are luckier than u , think again…..see beyond the horizon of the surface as the coins always have two sides………

2004-06-28T15:42:00.000+02:00

As the saying goes, everything that has a beginnning has an end...It ends next month...
What i'm saying here is actually about my first semester in Germany...
Understandably ,there'll be a so-called ''end of semester Examination'' before that...
Thus i'm literally studying like hell at the moment ,with pressure piling up gradually
in a rate proportional to mental fatigue ( After all, learning a science subject in a language that one has studied for 3 years is not easy at all man).....
just hope that all my efforts will bear fruits and not in vain....
Well, what else could i say??.....looking forward to the days after that , when i'll be touring around in Europe and going back to Malaysia for holidays...

2004-06-13T16:53:00.000+02:00

Cooking....just what does one know or understand about it???????
Although i have not done any survey or questionnaire at all regarding this , I suppose the norm is that people always define it as a “self-surviving skill” or rather, “an art” ,at which one needs practice and talent to do it to perfection….
Well , I agree utterly with the above-mentioned definitions , but on the other hand , I reckon that the definition of ‘cooking’ goes far more beyond that …
To be precise , I think that cooking is not only a universal way of feeding oneself , it’s also a test of personality , a means of gauging one’s mental strength , and likewise , a way to weigh one’s power of determination……..
As the saying goes , Rome was not built in a day. The same theory applies to cooking….
Apparently , one is not born with the skill of cooking…. As far as I’m concerned , I did not have the slightest idea of how I could cook for myself when I first reached Germany…and now after hours of trials , minutes of experiments and seconds of failures, u know what ?? I’m still NOT good at cooking ….( I apologize for giving u the impression that I’m already very good at cooking  hahahah……….)…
Nevertheless , an incident happened today that prompted me to write something about cooking….For the first time in my life , the curry that I cook is edible!!!!!...wah gempar lah….Yeah , no joking…before this, I have cooked curry for 4 times and all the outcome were unbelievably terrible….Had I given up on cooking curry , I would not have achieved the success today , albeit a minor success…..With that , I could say that my renounced confidence has been reinforced and at the end of the day , I finally understand that perserverance is the only key to success !!!!
One more suggestion for those companies which are looking for CEO’s with distinctive capabilities , perhaps the time has come for them to use ‘cooking’ as a filter to pinpoint the suitable candidates …..

2004-06-04T15:47:00.000+02:00

Touring around in Europe has always been a dream to everyone , i reckon.....If you told me 2 or 3 years ago that i would be able to do that , i would have laughed incessantly and begged u to stop cracking such a lame joke . But at this very moment , i could say that it's indeed a dream come true for me. Having already been to some of the cosmopolitan cities in Europe , namely Hamburg ( Germany ) , Amsterdam + Den Haag + Rotterdam ( Holland ) , Strsbourg ( France ) etc.... it's definitely not exaggerating to claim that i'm indeed touring around in Europe. Just for the sake of telling, my next destination will be Paris , France and though it's in August during my summer holidays , i'm already looking forward to it . Having said that , i got to thank JPA for awarding me this scholarship to study in Europe...Had it not been for it, i wouldn't even dare to even dream about going round backpacking in Europe...Anyway , hope that the rumours about the allowance which say that it'S going to be cut is not true....

2004-05-05T14:05:00.000+02:00

Looking back to the articles that I’ve written thus far , I’m somehow amazed as well as astounded at the fact that i’ve written more than 20 articles for this so-called “Corky-Stuff” webpage. Browsing through them reminds me of some of the past happenings , where do I come from and some of the experiences ,be it sweet, sour or even bitter, that I have gone through …. I recall vividly, that my very initial purpose of setting sail on this blogspot was that I wanted to put my English to practice , as I have literally forseen that there would not be many chances for me to do so in Germany. Now after about 5 months since then , this has indeed become a platform for me not only to batter my language proficiency , but also to express myself without any cerebral boundaries or constraints…..Of course , there are things that I will never write here …there are things that I do not wish to share with someone else…or to be precise , there are things that I prefer to keep to myself …..What have been published here are merely a part and parcel of my mundane life ……I do now know how many people have ever come here to read all these ‘craps’, I can never know and I do not want to know either….After all , this is just another E-Diary of a little HEE-man…

2004-04-11T20:48:00.000+02:00

It's been a long time since i last updated my blog...anyway, i update my blog quite often as compared with Kelvin...hehe..just go to his link and u"lll see what i mean..it's been eternity since he last wrote anything at all for his site..
emm...nothing special loh lately...life goes on everyday as usual ....everyday just turns out to be quite monotonous and sometimes boring...
i'm currently having a 5-day holidays for eastern....initially we had a plan to visit Köln one....but due to poor planning and miscommunications amongst those who were supposedly taking part in it , the trip was cancelled at last as all the JUGENDHERBeRgE were fullz booked...
anyhow, we are still going to Strasburg on Tuesday, so i would not consider this short-lived holidays as a waste of time...
looking forward to it lah...

2004-03-17T15:18:00.000+01:00

My first semester in Germany has ultimately 'kicked off' officially on the 15th of march.....and this day is going to be a day to be remembered for a long time to come....
well , what could i say about it.... ''exciting but terrifying'' is the one and only phrase i could think of at the moment , if anything is to sum up my fellings about it... We have been brought around in the FACHHOCHSCHULE by one of the german seniors and all the amenities have been introduced to us...i must say that i'm kinda impressed by some of the technology here...yeah..mind u..there are a lot of the so-called ''underground'' rooms here( just get to know the existance of all these rooms, albeit have been here for 1 month liao)...and they are where all the freakingly high-tech machines or devices are kept .....therefore it'S quite exciting..
anyway , any excitement is swiftly overwhelmed by the terror caused by the thought of having to attend the lectures in german ...
well , i had my first lesson on that day too... while some lessons are still understandable, some are so terrifying man, to the extent of beyond description.....in particular when the lecturers speak with the german accent , associated with some dialects like the classical ''Schwäbisch'' ........
anyway , all these have actually been expected and i have been told by seniors and some german lecturers as well that things will normally get better ..
so for the time being, i just keep my fingers crossed and tell myself that every tommorow will be better than today..

2004-02-24T13:47:00.000+01:00

One is considered to be lucky if he has the chance to see a Ferrari in malaysia.....one is regarded as very OOONNNNGGG or fairly lucky to meet up with say, a ferrari and a lamboghini on a same day....having said that , one could of course be described as extremely or unbelievably auspicious to see 3 or 4 luxurious, super cars on one particular day.....
well, if all the above-mentioned assumptions are true, then i could irrefutably proclaime or confidently assert that i'm one of the most auspicious, lucky,ONG, fortunate...(whatever lah)guy ón this earth...emm..reason being that i have seen 19 F-1 racing cars, more than 100 antiquated automobiles , more than 50 types of the latest super cars (lamboghini,ferrari,audi....) , and some supersonic planes such as the concord which is already 'extinct' now.....and many more with my naked eyes....i even have the opportunity to touch them with my own flesh.... and if i were to be given a word to describe my exact feelings, i would have bent over backwards until touching my heel...
talking about this museum sinsheim, it is indeed a heaven for car lovers. In actuality, i do not consider myself to be a hardcore car lover, though the fact is i do like cars, sport cars. Despite of that, i could still feel the utter satisfaction and excitement gushing down my throat , whenever i recall the trip.
Emm...amongst all the vehicles that i have seen there, there is one specific car,one which would have caught the attention of anyone at all there. It's the car that was made specially for THE BUNDESREICH.....which refers to ADOLF HITLER!!!!
yeah, that'S no bullshit..i have seen it , i have touched it....and just for the sake of mentioning it, this extraordinary car is bullet proof, safe from mines and it runs without water....and the best part is it was made in 40 or 50 years earlier ...hywooo....
Now that i have been to this museum, i would recommend it to anyone at all , both car lovers and car haters. :)

2004-02-17T15:11:00.000+01:00

Metzingen.....It's pronounced as Mc Singen...The very first time i heard of this name, i thought of Mc Donalds....I was thinking that that's the name of a new burger or another fast food company.....how wrong i was...
Well, Metzingen is reputed to be the shopper's paradise in germany.......It is, it really is......... one could get a lot of cheap stuff with high quality and freakingly low prices. Well, although all the shops there are factory outlets and some of the goods there are the so-called obsolete Items(at least 6 months old) , they are nonetheless of equally good quality as compared with those in the market...
Yeah, there are some defects with the Items, but they are simply undetectable and non-perceivable. Having said that, it doesn't mean all the goods there are rejected items...as i mentioned earlier, some of the goods there are the so-called ''outdated'' goods.....that means 6 months old or older than that...siow lah....it takes sometimes more than 6 months for a wholenew item to be made available in Malaysia lah......that's y the items there are simply more than a bargain for me or for us, malaysians....
well, i went there last saturday with GARGANTUAN APPETITE and FULLY-SATURATED WALLET.......and i left there with sheer satisfaction but as a 'broken man'....hehehe...not really lah....i bought a pair of shoes, a cap and a jacket...all are NIKE leh...
and i spent about 80 euros....Once again , do not convert into RM...that'S one of the lessons that i have learned since i have come to GERMANY....hehe...ok lah
For those who might be interested to see my nike collections, simply go to this page :
http://kiamhu.fotopages.com

2004-02-13T12:14:00.000+01:00

Everyman is the architect of his own future. I have known this particular saying for ages, and to be precise ,i hve applied it in my essay times after times, including the SPM.....but i would be lying that it meant anything at all to me...yeah, make no mistake about it, i used it for numerous or even countless times b4 this , without knowing the real meaning that lies beneath it ........
It becomes bedeutsam....argg(too used to german now).....meaningful only after i have come to Germany....indeed , i have learned some of the most important lessons in life ,some which one could not have possibly learned in the schooling lessons.
It is undeniably that one has to stand on his own two feets and at times, god would not help one if one does not help oneself. ..u may not understand what i´m saying now, but i bet u will...oklah...the unterricht is vorbei....beruhen Se sich..
well, look,i have always considered myself to be a devoted educator that contributes consistently to the community....:just browse thru my blog or just read the things that i have published...and the best part is , i do not charge u any fee at all...
Enough crap for today lah....haiyo...no crap lah, some are really serious stuff lah....sounds like i have some internal conflicts pula..hehe...ok lah, i believe u are wise enough to be able to differentiate what´s crap and what´s serious stuff....Tschüß

2004-02-03T15:30:00.000+01:00

well, time flies indeed....it's quite a shock when i realised that i have been in Deutschland( Germany) for almost a month already...
i can't really recount my experince here yet ...as i got to go now...anyway , i shall do that some other days...
for those who visit this blogspot, u'll be most welcome to come here again....

2004-01-01T18:49:00.000+01:00

as the saying goes , everything that has a beginning has an end....just take a glimpse around us , try to think of something, something that contradicts this theory...i bet u won't even find one....
come to think of it , the year 2003 has already become a chapter in history , while year 2004 keeps beckoning at us....
looking back to 2003 , it was indeed a year full of events and memories , both sweet and sour.....and i mean for me in particular....
a lot of u might be wondering why , as more often than not , every year just turns out to be monotonously similar with the others....but my answer is " hey pal, u dun know me coz u r not me baby'' ..hehe.. just kidding...
look , it's simply because 2003 was the year i turned 21 years old , the year i sat for my A-level and DSH , the year i lost my wisdom tooth , the year that my family bought a new house and the likes.....................
given the fact that i'm a man now( rather than a boy) as i was officically presented with a golden KEY to signify the award of the title ''manhood'' blah blah blah, i would presume that i'm being released unconditionally from the cage that has been keeping me for the past 21 years....( what did u think about the meaning of the ''cage'' huh???).......
with that , there shall be no questioning about my whereabouts , no judging about my every move and no looking over my shoulder ever since(i wonder)............don't u think that's something worth celebrating ?????hehe......
however , i hope that the removal of my wisdom tooth doesn't make me a stupid person or an unwise person ....
i swear to god that that's the last thing i would ever want....

2003-12-24T08:35:00.000+01:00

today i wanna salute and express my gratitude to the person who discovered and invented the ''anesthesia'' last time...
had he not invented that , i would have endured an incredulous amount of pain...pain which is beyond description when i underwent the ''wisdom tooth removal surgery'' today...to be precise , i didn't feel a thing when the dentist was removing the tooth , except the drilling sound and the heavy breath of him...hehe..
having said that , i do not mean that i do not feel any pain now...it's hurting so much , as the anesthesia is gone after 5 hours...but anyway, it's still quite bearable..( i'm a tough guy after all...!!!)
if u ask me how does it feel like exactly, i would say it feels none other than having a tooth removed , except that with a few stitches , i could not open my mouth so widely at least for the coming 2 days...that's a torture as neither consumption of delicious food nor crap talking is permissible...arghhhhh
oh ya , by the way , i have a suggestion....
i think it should be made a form of punishment for those outlaws who flout the regulations...hehe..it's definitely insufficient for them to serve just imprisonment..
i'm sure dental surgery (without the using of anes.) might just prove to be the most effective tool in reducing the crime rate..haha...
apart from that , it could be made as an event for the ''FEAR FACTOR''...but of course, if this comes true, then there shall be no champion with complete teeth....

2003-12-18T08:05:00.000+01:00

according to a survey done by xxx magazine on the ten things people fear the most , '' public speaking '' tops the list and closely followed by ''death threat''.....
well , the reliablity of that particular magazine has never been in doubt ,as it's supposedly recognized and known worldwide...
but if u ask me ,i would say that that's utter bullshit and sheer horseshit...don't get me wrong , i do have fear for public speaking and death , but they're somehow not as great as something i fear the most..
guess wat??? the thing that i fear the most ever since the day i was brought to this planet is ''dental surgery'' !!!!
just by listening to these two words scares the shit out of me ( oh damn it ..got to change my pant again..)..
worse still , as u know, i'm going to overseas soon , so i got to have my teeth checked mah....subsequently , i went to the dentist today with some uneasy feelings ... i could't tell why beforehand, maybe that's due to my intuition or gut instinct thAT SOMEthing was going to happen...!!!
and u know what...i got three teeth refilled and have to go back again next week...y leh?? .....haiiiii, to have my wisdom tooth removed!!!!!
arghhhhhhh.....and it's not like a normal extraction , it's an oral surgery ...albeit a minor one...
besides , the dentist told me that one of the teeth that were refilled today must undergo another surgery for it to last long..something known as '' root removal''....wah lao leh!!! i think i'm luckier than those who kena loteri lah
anyway, there's nothing much i could do about it....all these must be done sooner or later...so it's better to get rid of it while still earlyyy....
basically , the thoughts of all these make my day gloomy...the only happy news that i could think of is i'm watching LOTR tonight......despite of this ,any moments of joy is overwhelmed and instantly replaced by fear + uneasiness whenever the idea of ''dental surgery'' strikes me...

2003-12-11T17:44:00.000+01:00

check this out , this is fun.....u'll get to know what u used to be in ur past life without having to travel on the time maschine.....

chuah teong hee was
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in a past life.

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2003-12-11T17:14:00.000+01:00

i went to watch ''master and commander'' last night with my cousin .... it's a movie starring Russell Crowe(the gladiator). if u ask me about the movie , i would say that it's fairly entertaining and worthwhile to watch , considering the fact that i only paid rm 5 for it........for those who don't know, one is charged only half of the usual price for all the movies on wednesday...
anyway, i'm not interested in commenting about the movie ...... but i do wanna say something about one particular advertisement .
i'm sure that all of you must have seen the advertisement of guinness stout right?? the one that comes normally before the real movie......
u see , the ads. is about a man who happens to be so successful , and as a matter of fact , to the extent of becoming the man of the year , discovering new species ,writing a bestseller, and what's more unbelievable is owning a piece of land on the MOOON , and all these happen after drinking guinness stout...what the..!????
i must say that , after approximately 15 years of formal education ,i still feel as if my intelligence being insulted ,molested after watching that advertisement...
apparently ,guinness sdn.bhd (dunno the exact name) definitely reckons that we are so naive and stupid to believe whatever being thrown at us...u see ,this ads. is trying to suggest that life is all about drinking G.S .....do it and u will be a legendary figure to the end of humanity...hehe, frankly it sounds hilarious to me......
if that's true, then i guess i have to congratulate us , the homo-sapiens , of discovering the golden key to a new height of mankind...
by the way, no harm trying right...hahahahahahha

2003-12-05T17:38:00.000+01:00

my friend used to tell me that one needs to break the piggy-bank or to spend a hell lot of money before one goes overseas to study......well, there would usually be a ''parlimentary'' style of debate between us whenever we talked about this , as i was a firm opposition to the above-mentioned notion and i was always adamant about it , until recently...
yeah , make no mistake about it , i have been converted into this religion just a couple of hours ago .....
one needs not be wealthy or affluent , but one definitely needs to splash out an ''astronomical'' amount of money , just to cover the cost of all the necessary stuff...
the fact that i have spent around rm 1000 just to get some winter-outfits and bags attests to this truism...
well, i do not think that i've been lavish or excessive in my spending or watsover,i'll let u be the judge.....look, winter stuff are actually and literally not cheap at all ... a travelling bag costed me rm 200 , another rm300 for WINTER jacket....on the other hand , a polo neck at rm100 , two pullover at around rm 100 each,with another set of '' long johns'' at the price of rm 150 ( pure wool)....so i guess that added up to slightly more than a thousand......and i'm not done with my shopping yet!!!!!!
but that's not the main problem.....the most frustrating part is i only get rm700 from my scholarship provider for my predeparture preparation!!!!
sigh, seems like i have no way out but to work days and nights incessantly(i doubt i shall.....) to augment my theoretically ever-decreasing , but practically ever-expanding budget.......

2003-12-01T19:17:00.000+01:00

it looks like the aura of inspiration has terminated me for quite a while....well , i just could not think of something decent , or something which is interesting to write for my blog these few days......aps
perhaps that's b'coz of these few boring,eventless days ....or perhaps that's b'coz of mental fatigue....i just could not figure out until just an hour ago.
well , u see ....i've been so immersed in computer games these days , to the extent that i did basically nothing the whole day except sitting motionlessly for hours...
i must admit that i have wasted practically a week , did not do things that i shud have done or things that i promised myself to do...hai...
updating this blog is a clear example , if anything is to be the proof....hehe,,,by the way , i really didn't have any idea to write lah
anyway , it's never too late to return to the ''correct path'' right?? at least i hope so...hehe
ok lah , i now wanna make an oath to myself..i must not play games until so siao from today onwards, i must cut down to at least 99%....haha...siow lah
anyway , i'm serious about it......we'll see

2003-11-28T05:26:00.000+01:00

''zzz...zzz..zzz...ahh!!!!!''
that's how i woke up this morning.....pls do not misunderstand , i wasn't hit by my mother for not sleeping in a proper posture or fell down from my bed which is 10 feets tall ( that's an exaggeration , u didn't think that's true ..or did u??)
well , in the midst of my sleep , my knee, which is already wounded, accidentally hit the woodwork of my bed ...and i woke up in a scream ...not knowing wat the hell was going on....
''was i hit by an aeroplane??'' or ''was i being ambushed by my foe?'' were some of the questions i asked myself at first...well ,after like 20 seconds ..i regained my consciousness and realised what was going on...hehe...so as a result , i got myself a second wound....i've injured my fist , after venting my outrage and anger on the woodwork of my bed....hai...damn it!!! wish that i wasn't that stupid!!!
by the way , that's how i injured my knee..it's weird , but i guess weird things do happen occasionally..
i was playing badminton ..and i was trying to execute a smash when i heard a scream...without realising it, that's actually from my mouth....in an attempt to kill off the game , i missed the shuttlecock and hit my own ''fragile'' knee with my racquet.....that's it...i ended up with a bruised and sore knee ...just a step away from having to walk with the aid of a walking stick...

2003-11-25T16:51:00.000+01:00

‘’Go or don’t go’’ ….although this looks to be a rather simple phrase , it has plagued my mind all day long, and to be precise, from the very minute I woke up this morning.
Well , serious as it may sound , it’s actually about whether or not to attend a wedding dinner of a relative. Though it’s just as easy as making a choice, somehow I find it tough to make up my mind , reason being that this would be the second of the three dinners I have to attend within one week…I have attended the first one just a couple of days ago , and there’ll be another one on Saturday …..and to be frank to u , i’m sick of it already…
U may say , ‘ hey look pal, if u dun feel like going , just forget about it lah…’
I wish that it’s as simple as that .In actuality , the complexity of the problem is sometimes beyond the computational power of human brain…..hehe…..yeah, I ain’t no joking..
Even before I have made up my mind , my parents have been nagging at me and making me feel obliged to attend the dinners…
U see , Chinese would perceive any reluctance to attend a wedding dinner as a vote of insincerity and ‘’not giving face’’ , no matter how clear the logic or reason behind it. So basically i was left with no choice but to choose the green pill and attend the dinner….and here I am, sitting in front of my laptop after coming back from the 2nd dinner of the week…
The only thing I could do now is go jogging everyday and watch my diet , as I do not wish to become a victim of obesity due to the excessive intake of calories from these dinners!!!!!!!

2003-11-22T17:22:00.000+01:00

well, i just came back from gurney plaza....there's a photofair there at the moment , and it's reputed to be the ''largest'' photofair in malaysia this year...
ironically , from i could see , i reckon that it's not really as big as i thought ,perhaps it's b'coz of the expectation which is as high as sky.....hehe...dunno lah , anyway , u could find most of the brands there lah, namely canon, olympus, nikon, minolta , sony anf the likes.....
to be fair to it lah , one actually has a wide range of digicams to choose from the fair...
nevertheless, having been to that fair has not really been a boon to me ...rather , it's a bane to a certain extent...
y do i say so leh?? hehe....b'coz now that i have decided to buy ixus 400 , a new prob arises .....i dunno WHO to buy from leh....
u see, now i have two offers which can be considered as exceptionally good....
the first one is i could get the camera with all the things in the package at just 1600....and in fact i have promised that guy to buy from him...
but now i have a second choice( from the fair) , at a price of 1799, i could get the camera with the same things ,with the 32mb CF card being substituted by a 128 MB one.....in addition , i could get a cap , a neckstrap ( choon man) and a mini tripod absolutely free....hehe... i know that u all are envious of me having a luxury of choices , but i couldn't help it wat....who asks me to be such a persuasive person and have such a good speaking skill???? :p
ok lah , sick of this topic liao.....don't wanna think about it liao, at least not for today....
oh ya , i'm learning HTML now....not really from a book , but from a friend through internet...hehe....so don't be surprised if i could draw ''ang kong hu'' ( a writing of talisman) suddenly.....since the codes look like a hell bunch of rubbish....

2003-11-20T17:13:00.000+01:00

as the chinese saying goes, ''a man who cannot smile cannot do business , a frog which cannot jump cannot catch the flies ( i create this myself , since it sounds quite synchronous....hehe)...this is indeed true...

i visited quite a number of shops today , trying to figure out which digicam to buy ....and now as i;m sitting right here, right in front of my laptop, i could safely assert that my personal experience confirm the theory behind the above-mentioned ''idiom''.... look , i went to err 4 shops today, let's name them as 1,2,3,4 in order to make things easy....if i were to make a decision promptly on which shop to go to purchase the digicam , i would have chosen shop 4 without any hesitation.....disregarding the price , n i mean even if a same product costs me 200 bucks more in that shop comparatively...

y do i say so??
am i rich or have i got too much money to spend??
or is there a CHIOBU there,so beautiful and charming that it's almost impossible to say no to watever she asks from u?????

the answer is a gigantic and resounding NO!!! IT'S BECAUSE of the treatment that i got from the shop A,B, and C .......well , as a conscious consumer , of coz i would ask in details and compare the prices first b4 making up my mind right.....so , wat i got was a contemptous look which suggests suspicion and disrespect...furthermore , their responses to my questions were....err...how to say?? like an ambiguous and seemingly positive response with subtle unwillingness...like ''eng siu eng siu'' like that lah......anyway , perhaps that was b'coz of my untidy look and uncombed hair with a few flies above it.....

well , no matter waat er lah , my point of view is that all customers or prospective customers should be treated with great patience and respect....if i'm a to become a boss in the future , i would make sure that none of my employees behave in such a way....i believe that instead of luring customers , such an attitude will drive away even the most mild-mannered customer.....

2003-11-19T12:16:00.000+01:00

DIGICAM...!!!!......DIGICAM....!!!!
at last i have got my digicam.....pheu(sigh of relief)...i have been waiting for this moment since 3 weeks ago, and it seemed like eternity until this morning when my fren informed me that he has just got our digicams....well, when i said ''our''.... it means my 3 other housemates and me myself...yeah, make no mistake about it, there're 4 digicams altogether.....
well, it's a complicated story actually.....just a few weeks ago, each of us bought a compaq laptop and got a free digicam with it....yeah,totally free....but instead of getting it together with our laptops , we were told to wait due to ''out of stocks''...damn...initially that fella said , one week..then 2 weeks ..then even more....
after weeks of speculations, days of sleepless nights, hours of dejection and endless seconds of uncertainties.....finally we got our digicams, but not yet really'' got '' them actually...u see, all of us are back to our hometowns d...so my fren in kl has to take all the digicams for us, sort of like an agent without any commission..hehe....

after all, it really seems like an eternity b4 i could get a touch at ''my precious''( sounds like GOLLUM in lord of the rings,doesn't it??) physically with my flesh.....

oh ya,my laptop is compaq presario X1075 ...if u ask me about it ,frankly speaking, i hold no grudges against it at alll, very very satisfying...
to be precise , it's powerful enuf to launch''APOLLO 13'' (no joke, A13 used intel 80486 microprocessor nia) and it's stylish enuf to be an ornamental stuff in the lounge(no guarantee that u'll agree with me on that though....hehe)

bt the way...i plan to get a NEW DIGICAM...hehe, queer but true.....i plan to get canon ixus 400 (darn expensive man)/ olympus miu 300(nice appearance)/ yashica finecam sl 300 r (so thin that u dun have to go on diet or france marie bodyline) ......

so if anyone happens to have any professional view on that, do not hesitate to enlighten me....for ur info,u can reach me at eehtc82@hotmail.com..

2003-11-18T17:45:00.000+01:00

well, it has been quite a hectic day for me.......though i have not really encountered any fishy or corky stuff...
i had a dream last night ....i can't exactly recount wat the dream was all about , but as far as i'm concerned, it's something to do with my car.....it was a long dream, and b'coz of it i woke up so late today(exactly 12.00 pm)...damn...and it's the main culprit also for the wastage of 5 bucks in 3D...damn again!!!by the way, i'm not a seoson-gambler though...hehe...just buy toto or 3d occasionally....sometimes once in a year...all hinge on the ''frequency'' of the occurance of ''special'' events...hehe

oh talking of it, i do remember the reason that led to that dream.....i just had a close encounter with a seemingly-tragic accident....i must say that i was lucky to remain unhurt and my car intact....it goes like this...

i was on my way back after shopping with my family for new furnitures for my new house....i was chatting with my cousin,ah liang, when there was a wira coming with such tremendous speed from far behind ( i could see it from my rear mirror)....everything was so enjoyable until then...in split seconds, that car passed mine and in the progress nearly hitting my car...so out of sheer natural-reaction, i pressed the horn to ''sound'' my displeasure at his barbarian-like driving style....well, then the unexpected happened....that silly fella swerved from my front right to exactly my front and had an emergency break.....sucks man....of coz i was shocked and without realising it, i pressed the brake so hard that my car came to a screeching halt...in fact there was 1 or 2 seconds when i lost control of my car completely....shit...but i was lucky enuf that all the cars behind me somehow managed to avoid hitting me....then came the most frustrating part...that fxxxer gave me a finger.....

i was so fed up ...so i gave him a chase.....then he stopped by the road side, waiting to ''negotiate'' with me....i stopped abreast and had barely said a few words like'' hey, lu siow aar....lu ai wa si ar(u wanna kill me ar)???'' when he suddenly sprung out of the car...looked like wanna have a wwf smack-down match with me...well,i'm not ''the rock'' or ''triple x'' wat......so wat could i do?? of coz i chao lah...hai...seems like there are more and more road-bullies and insane drivers nowadays...

so wat is the morale of the story?? remember to keep a stick in ur car , just in case it comes needy at times like this...hehe....if only i was ''siow'' and ''courageous'' enuf to confront him....dun baby......run if u can't guarantee of ur own safety....anyway, it was indeed a close call...dun u think so??

2003-11-17T19:18:00.000+01:00

hello world......annoucing the birth of a whole new blog....u know wat??
it's called the blog of fishy+corky stuffs....hehe.....glad that i have finally become a proprietor of a blog...
anyway, i got to know that there's something like this (blog) from a very good fren of mine.... to be precise, he is also a corky person... sometimes as corky as you can ever imagine ....hehe...but i take that as a good thing...his name is KELxxx..hehe...i can't tell the whole name, otherwise there would not be any sense of secrecy...dun u think so as well??
anyway, it has been a long and tiring day for me.....i can't type any further, since only half of ONE of my eyes is open...she can't wait to close down , since her other part has tutup''ed'' liao...
ok lah, so i guess that's all for today....if u wanna more fishy+corky+crappy+...err....watever stuffs....dun come here again...coz u are at a high risk of getting overload....u have the warning...to come or not to come, the choice is now YOURS....