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RM77mil diamond ring returned to sender, says Nazri

2011-10-05T20:23:00.000-07:00

THE US$24mil (RM77mil) diamond ring, allegedly bought by Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, was never actually paid for or purchased by anyone.

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz said the ring had been returned to the company that owned it.

“The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) referred to the Customs Department regarding this matter.

“The department then confirmed that no purchases were made on the ring,” he said in a written reply to Lim Lip Eng (DAP-Segambut).

Lim had asked Nazri to reveal the status of investigations by the MACC, Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) and police on allegations that Rosmah had bought the ring.

Several websites had previously carried photographs of a computer screen showing a ring from New York celebrity jeweller Jacob and Co, allegedly bought under Rosmah’s name.

A blogger had claimed that the ring was sent to Rosmah in April.

So how the F*** does a company allows a person to take a diamond ring costing millions without paying for it? mmm.. I smell fish..

Oh well, I guess in this BOLEH-land, anything is possible! This is such my country.

Cooking is so much fun!

2011-06-15T12:59:00.000-07:00

Finally, I've decided to write something again on my blog. These past few months and even the past year has been crazy for me! Graduated college last month, starting a new job, moved down to Dallas, went to LA for a 2 weeks vacations etc!

But what I cant contain anymore is the fun of cooking and making healthy meals. These days I've tried out with making different stuff with Avocado, a extremely healthy and delicious tree fruit. The first of what I made is the legendary Guacamole:

It taste amazing! I had some diced onions, peppers and salt in it. I tried this morning with some bread and it is delicious! It took probably 5-10 minutes to make this specialty.

This is Avocado Shake. There are milk, organic sugar and some honey in it blended with Avocado and some ice It tasted like coconut ice cream along with some distinct taste.

And baked salmon for my dinner! It is crazy delicious. Kind of like Teriyaki Salmon that you get at restaurant but much cheaper!! Easy to make too. Took about 30 minutes to marinate and 30 minutes for the meat to get tender. Worth the time!

NEP must continue, says Dr Mahathir

2011-02-13T00:18:00.000-08:00

KUALA LUMPUR: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said the New Economic Policy must continue even though many Malays had misused the opportunities given to them, such as selling off their business licences and contracts.

The former prime minister said that if the Malays had made the best use of those opportunities, they would have attained not only 30% of the nation’s wealth but much more than that.

He said the NEP had to be continued because the Malays had yet to attain the quota, but they should continue to strive to avoid becoming the most backward race in the country.

“The Government will safeguard our position, but there will come a day when it will not be able to defend national policies,” he added.

Dr Mahathir was delivering a keynote address at a symposium on The Malay Dilemma: Perspective and Conclusion, organised by the Persatuan Alumni Pemimpin Mahasiswa Aspirasi Malaysia at the Putra World Trade Centre here yesterday.

To a question from the floor on why the NEP should be continued when he had admitted that there were abuses, Dr Mahathir said: “If you don’t give, then nobody will have it.

“But if you give, they may misuse it. So, we need to be more selective.

“It is not the policy that went wrong but the implementation.” So what the F*** have you done to improve it during your freaking many years of administration?

To a question whether the country’s leadership had been too greedy and whether the Chinese and Indians had been working hard while the Malays became spoilt, he said the Government could not not spoil the Malays because the opportunities were their rights. THIS IS THE FREAKING REASON WHY MALAYSIA IS GOING DOWN THE DRAIN DAY BY DAY!!!!

However, added Dr Mahathir, the Malays should not rely too much on the Government.

To a question by DAP national publicity chief Tony Pua on the Government’s RM6bil allocation to buy six offshore patrol vessels for the navy, Dr Mahathir said it would not be a problem for the Government to explain.

“The cost of things have gone up,” said Dr Mahathir, who had warned the Government in his address not to get into an arms race with neighbouring countries.

At a press conference after his address, Dr Mahathir was asked about reports that DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang had accused him of re-writing history by putting the blame on police for the arrest of 106 people under the Internal Security Act in 1987.

Responding to the allegation, Dr Mahathir was adamant that he met opposition leaders before Ops Lalang and had assured them that they would not be arrested.

“I have no reason to make the claim unless it (the meeting) had happened.

“I met them and assured them, but, of course, I don’t expect opposition leaders to be grateful to acknowledge anything from the Government, particularly myself,” Dr Mahathir said.

Lim had commented on the book Doctor M: Operation Malaysia – Conversations with Mahathir Mohamad, which revealed the former prime minister had said the 1987 crackdown was a police decision.

He also denied that Dr Mahathir had met him and other opposition members.

Seriously I think this old man should just stay home and enjoy his cucu and also use his $ 5-10 billion dirty money.. Pay back will be on the later generations.

Valentine's Day is a sinful day!

2011-02-10T12:19:00.000-08:00

Jakim launching anti-Valentine's Day campaign

Oklahoma State University Malaysian Student Society (MSS)

2011-02-02T10:18:00.000-08:00

Anyone from Malaysia who is interested in coming to Oklahoma State University can contact me directly at +1405-612-0368 or email me at either sch_90@hotmail.com or eldrick.saw@okstate.edu

I can help assist your transition or furnish you with more information should you need it.

Thanks!

It's Blizzard

2011-02-02T10:02:00.000-08:00

Oklahoma just had a record high snow during the February season. Over a foot high!!!

http://www.weather.com/outlook/videos/oklahoma-citys-60-second-forecast-699#19536

School is officially closed yesterday and today. Am praying that it will too tomorrow.. :)

Anyway, it seems like we will be having a white Chinese New Year over here.. It's New Year's Eve and my friends and I probably going to have a quick dinner tonight, gamble a little and that's about it.. Still have quiz to study for on Thursday..

This is a picture of Stephanie in the snow..

Notice how thick the snows are!

CitySights ny (New York) Review(s)

2011-01-10T11:46:00.000-08:00

Customer service is terrible. The company seems to not take care of their customers at all!

Recently took a trip to New York. Arrived on the 27th of December 2010 but was welcomed by a bad blizzard. Because of that, when we went to Planet Hollywood the next day to redeem our tickts, we were told that the tour bus was canceled for the day because of the bad weather. The condition is very understandable for the cancellation.

When it resumed service on the 29th, we were greeted with a 30 minutes wait outside of Planet Hollywood in the cold and melting snows to redeem our tickets. After getting them, we walked for roughly 10 minutes, with the crowd, searching for a place to hop on the bus. Finally found the place and waited for 30minutes before riding on it. Rode for 15 minutes to the Natural History Museum. We walked to Metropolitan after that. When Metropolitan closes at 5.30pm, we thought we'd get a ride from the Museum to Timesquare but waited at the bus stop for 30 minutes before figuring that taking the subway is probably faster.

On the 30th, we did not take the bus at all figured that it wasnt worth our time waiting for it.

When our New York Pass expires on the 31st, we wanted to take a relaxing tour (our hop on hop off wasnt expire yet) We waited for the bus at roughly 3pm for 15 minutes before decided to call the company. We were told by the operator that the bus stops running at 3pm. Considering that our plans for the day was to go on the tour, we were seriously pissed. Besides, we saw the other bus operator (Gray Line) is running and at least 2 busses passed us during the 15 minutes. Ended up, we took the subway again. My girlfriend called again wanted to reconfirm that the bus is not running and if so try to launch a report but was hung up by the operator after telling her that the bus stopped running in a very rude manner.

The next day, few hours before leaving New York, we went to a City Sights attendant to complain about it and he told us that we could actually took the Gray Line bus when CitySights stop running!!! We were shocked because we called the CitySights Customer Service 3 times and no one told us we could do that!!

It is the worst experience ever!! We will never again buy this tour and would definitely tell others not to get it. It is more convenient taking the subways to get to places or whatnot. As a student, we paid $ 60 bucks extra per person for the full package. We could have saved $360 bucks and enjoyed our trip even more.

Please tell others about it and do not get misled by all the seemingly good comments on the website. It's nonsense at best.

What is wrong??!

2010-12-05T23:15:00.001-08:00

This past week, I've lost : My OSU outer wear while sporting in Colvin Center, my bicycle which is locked in school compound, my pendrive while going through security in the airport and my charger which I left it in the hotel room..

What is wrong with my life.. Is it just one of those weeks or am I losing myself? I need to reorganize my life and just everything around me.. Too much happening..................

I am Graduating!!

2010-10-25T14:43:00.000-07:00

It is hard to believe, but today I've just enrolled in 4 courses in Mechanical Engineering and that will be it! I will be graduating next May meaning my last semester is going to be my last!!! :)

It definitely has not been a long and enduring 4 years + of University but rather I enjoyed it to the max! It has been life changing experience all along and I enjoyed every bit of it. Awesoooome!!

End of this year, I will be dropping by to Chicago (all paid trip) for a meeting with Malaysian Student Department from 17-19 of December. Then, I will be going to Washington D.C on the 22nd and then take a train to New York on the 27th for the famous New Year countdown then on the 1st or 3rd Jan (not sure yet) leaving to Boston to visit Harvard and MIT (My 2 dream school!!)

It will be an interesting year ahead. Life is goood as always! Thank God oh yeah..

I am back!

2010-06-13T07:14:00.000-07:00

Rawr!!! I should have updated sooner but anyway I am home!! Back in Malaysia.. (Almost a month already actually) haha!

I am working currently in Senai, Johor and of course with Halliburton! They paid for my air ticket and paid me in USD eh! I felt rich all of the sudden. hehe.

Anyway I am still using the number 012-915-3359 So give me a call we can hang out! :) Muahahaa.

TAMA Rockstar Drum

2010-04-26T00:08:00.000-07:00

Just got back from Oklahoma City because we went there to buy a set of drums!!! :) How awesome is that? Bought a used TAMA Rockstar drum, with Zildjian cymbals for $661.75. Paid by Malaysian Student Society because we will be needing it for our graduation banquet band. :)

Had 2 meals at Banana Island (Malaysian Restaurant at OKC) today. Ate Hainanese Chicken Rice, Beef Rendang with Rice, Beef soup, curry stingray, and WAT TAN HO!!! Soooo good. Cant wait to get back to Msia... hehehee...

Btw more pictures will be up tomorrow on the drum when i set it up. Prepare to be blown away!! For now, HOMEWORK!!!!

Apolo Anton Ohno

2010-04-22T15:55:00.000-07:00

This guy is amazing. Read from school newspaper about him coming to OSU but didnt have the time to go for his talk. This is the interview between him and our President. Impressive..

Malaysia Delegates in OSU

2010-04-13T21:18:00.000-07:00

Today, some Malaysia's delegates (from Selangor) came to visit Oklahoma State University.
Edward Ling (edwardling.blogspot.com), political secretary for Hannah Yeoh (hannahyeoh.blogspot.com), Boon Kia Meng, Parliamentary Affairs and Research Officer for DAP and Adriene Leong, Policy Advisor to YB Teresa Kok are 3 of those who came.

Malaysian students went and met up with them. I was particularly interested in talking to Edward Ling because ironically I emailed him and Hannah a long time ago expressing my interest in joining DAP. We talked for some time about the situations in Malaysia and it is inspiring to know the movements that they are working on to get more younger Malaysian to vote and instill change to our government. Took some pictures with them too as we went for a tour around campus.

By the way, I was elected to be the President of Malaysian Student Society (MSS) this coming academic year (2010-2011) :)

Big Food of the Day

2010-04-06T21:28:00.000-07:00

Consisted of 9 layers of not sure what is it (either turkey meat, ham or Bologna) and 3 layers of American cheese. This is the sandwich that was given out by the College Of Engineering today! :) Wicked!!!

Gooood Food!

2010-03-28T19:59:00.000-07:00

Yes yes. After being complained by my dad for not updating my blog, here I am to show you some pictures which will make your saliva drip non-stop. I just came back from Malaysian Student Society (MSS) committee meeting (5 out of 8 showed up) and we went to a japanese restaurant to get dinner. Of course, as a society who doesnt spend a lot of money every semester plus being eligible to receive 2000 USD from Malaysia Student Department in Chicago every year, we are allowed to order anything we want to eat and it will be charged to our society. :)

And so, instead of searching for the cheapest on the menu like I normally does, we all looked for the most expensive stuff on it.

Here are what we ordered:

Appetizers

Spider Roll (Soft shell crab) >on left {8.95}

Long Island Roll (Tempura shrimp with lobster salad and sauce) > on right {14.95}

Tofu (Free cause we got coupon)

Beans (Free too)

Miso Soup, salad and green tea for everyone.

California roll and crab meat roll (Free too because of coupon)

Here comes the entree:

Mine: Seafood lover (Consists of Lobster tail, scallop and shrimp with fried rice) >{$26.95} The most expensive item on the menu. Feel bad that I am eating this while there are so many people suffering from hunger:(

Shrimp Tempura and Chicken {16.95} ordered by Henry and BoonGar

Nabeyaki {$9.95}

Shrimp Tempura and Sashimi {18.95}

And the total goes to......(Drum roll please)

$131.75 + $ 15.00 (tips) = $ 146.75!

This is where your taxes goes to, mom and dad.! LOL

Bid goodbye to TEENsss

2010-02-25T21:10:00.000-08:00

ThirTEEN
FourTEEN
FifTEEN
SixTEEN
SevenTEEN
EighTEEN
NineTEEN

are going to be mere memories in minutes when I officially turn 20 (no more TEEN). The beginning of a new decade for me while leaving immature, dumb, innocence teens years behind. Nonetheless, it has craved profound and weighty sweet/bitter memories in my heart which I will only be able to ponder upon from now on and wish I've done better...or not. I've learn how to be independent and grow up rather quickly these years. Although not officially a "man" yet, I will have another fruitful year to learn how to be a responsible and faithful man.

Probably the greatest achievements I've ever accomplished during my teen years is to get closer to God and making Him the focus of my life.The one true God - our fortress and rock!! :) Amen!

ROAR!!

2010-02-14T22:31:00.000-08:00

Happy Chinese New Year everyone! May the year of Tiger bring us prosperity and good health that comes from our Almight God :)

And, Happy Valentine's Day! Updates coming soon..

Malaysia Malaysia...

2010-01-28T21:49:00.000-08:00

Oh my dear Malaysia.. I have not met anyone who is not saddened and dishearten by the recent event of Malaysia - the use of the word "Allah"

What I dont understand is if a Muslims truly is faithful to his/her religion, why care about just a word. I believe that there only is one God. Muslims and Christians likewise are praying to that same God. My God is a God who promote love, wisdom, patient, tolerance and harmony.

So, Muslims who oppose the use of the word "Allah" by non-Muslims have a God who wants it's children to burn churches, insult other religion and prohibit the use of that one word which was used for God way before the Muslims religion exist..? Please dont tell me, their God want them to instill racial disharmony just because other religion use their word for God? Their God want them to show others the bad moral teachings and bad temper management that they obtained from their religion? Their God want them to force others into the religion instead of making disciples by the simple means of loving others?

And, to clarify things, this is directed to Malay Muslims only!! Not the original Muslims or the more liberal Muslims. Since they say Malaysia is a unique country. The word "Allah" is for Malay Muslims only! Cool right? Even other Muslims cant use it then?? @.@ I have to say, there are still many malays who are really nice and tolerance in Msia. Those are the true Muslims and their actions are the one who will bring non-Muslims into the religion. To those who are burning churches, doing cow head protest, and making themselves looks so MUSLIM-LIKE/extremist, go get a Quran, read it, pray and repent. May God bring common-sense to you all..

Another crappy news from Msia..

Panty-less warning for Valentine's day (http://www.dailychilli.com/news/2083-love-birds-may-go-panty-less)

"Muslims must understand that Valentine’s Day is not for them. We will not allow Muslim students to be taken in by such celebrations that deviate from the teachings of Islam. (Wonder what does the teaching of Islam says about Valentine's Days)

Khusrin said Jais officials would be checking budget hotels, malls and parks throughout Selangor on Feb 14 to ensure that Muslims behave themselves. "If we find unmarried couples together, they could be charged with committing khalwat (close proximity)," (So apparently, the authority, instead of spending more time nabbing robbers, doing more patrol to promote the safety of their Rakyat, are going out the street and dispersing the teachings of Quran and be the Muslim-law enforcers. Reminds me of the movie - Boondock Saints. Oh my bad my bad, that's why they have this Jais (Islamic Affairs Department ) Another extra place, exclusively for Malays only, for the government to spoon-feed them..)

"We also advise parents to ensure that their children are at home." (You should probably say that when you guys started burning churches, protests and so on dude.. That is more dangerous than going out for a date)

"We will also check restaurants that offer candle-light dinners, as these often lead to possible sexual activities in budget hotels." (Hahaha.. moral of the story, bring a girl for a candle-light dinner and you probably will end up on the bed with her.. )

HOWEVER,
It is not known how a girl who is not wearing panties could be singled out. (LOL...I wonder how... but I bet those JAIS officials will come out with something so smart that it will blow your mind offfff!! )

Malaysians, let's continue to pray for the well-being of our country and for the Muslims, as Jesus said "Forgive them ; for they do not know what they are doing -Luke 23:34
God bless our dear country..

Message from William Leong, PKR Treasurer‏

2010-01-28T21:44:00.000-08:00

This message below is directed to All Malaysians. If you are not a Malaysian, then take it for information sake. Politics itself is not dirty, but it's people who make it dirty....so it depends on which side of the fence you are in. Thanks to W.F. Cheah for sharing this article by William Leong. William Leong is the treasurer of PKR and younger brother of ex minister, Paul Leong. Practising in law for 20 odd years before going into politicsPLEASE READ IF YOU CARE ENOUGH FOR YOUR KIDS' FUTURE

All Malaysians are duty bound to help each other to achieve a better life in our country. With the performance of the UMNO/BN for the last 52 years, especially the last 28 years, the country has been raped by politicians and their cronies. You know how arrogant they are, let us have look.

1.. They are extending the APs to 2015. They are giving themselves free money.. This is daylight robbery. We are talking big bucks, billions

2. The taxes and duties on cars continue to be high to protect Proton but we the public pay through our nose. If the PR government comes into power we canexpect prices to drop by at least 50% for imported cars. Why are we paying these cronies our hard earned money so that they can drive around in their new and latest Ferraris, BMWs etc.

3. Have you noticed that they appoint themselves to high paying jobs and positions where they can also earn additional side income. Again these side income runinto billions.

4. The Accountant General reported that RM 28B was wasted by you know who and for who. These figures probably do not involve the highly secretive arms contracts which run into billions.

5. Look at the way they snatched the Perak State government.

6. Look at the way they treated Teoh Beng Hock

7. Look at the way they are trying to get Anwar

8. Look at the Lingam's Royal Commission

9. Look at the PKFZ delaying tactics, get one report after another, and then another and if necessary another and then only the small fish get caught and hauled to Court.

What a way to fool us? Either they are stupid or we are stupid. The abuse and cheating has been going on for far too long. Only you and I and together with all Malaysians who care can stop them. Between now and the next General Elections we have to campaign now as if the GE is just 6 months from now. Not only do we campaign, we must get our friends to get others and others to do the same. Let us not be fooled again and again.

Please start now, if 10 of us can each get 10 we will have 100 and if each of the hundred gets 10 we will have 1000. If we keep going, we will reach more than 10M active Malaysians to force a change. This is a legacy we must give our children/grandchildren, they deserve better. The alternative is too horrendous to look at.

Look at Indonesia, Japan, S. Korea and Taiwan, all their old and corrupt parties have been replaced, Malaysia is next.What Independence? On this August 31st, we shall celebrate the 52nd anniversary of the British leaving our country. I did not say we are celebrating the 52nd anniversary of our independence. This is because our people have not enjoyed real liberty, democracy or justice. Without liberty,democracy or justice there is no independence.. In these 52 years the oppressive rule of a foreign colonial master has been replaced by the oppressive rule of a local master. The rule with an iron fist.

They use the same instruments of oppression as the British did. They use the ISA, the Sedition Act, the Printing Press & Publications Act and detention withouttrial. The freedom of assembly, the freedom of expression and the freedom to live a life of dignity free from fear and oppression are illusions.

In these 52 years the yoke of a foreign colonial master has been replaced by the yoke of a local master. They use the same policy of “divide and rule”. They survive by feeding off racialism. They survive by fostering divisiveness. They survive by preaching religious intolerance.What Teoh Beng Hock died for Malaysians will not know real independence, will not be free and will not enjoy democracy unless this oppressive regime is thrown out.

They must be thrown out just like Teoh Beng Hock was thrown out from the 14th floor of the MACC office. We must not forget Teoh BengHock. We must not forget what he stood for. More importantly, we must not forget what he died for. He lived to help Malaysians in the struggle against corruption and oppression. He died so that our struggle can live.

He died fighting for justice.What Justice? Without justice we cannot say we have liberty or democracy or equal rights. We cannot say we have liberty or freedom when Tamil schoolshave no tables and chairs. When in Sabah and Sarawak, schools have no electricity. A child that is illiterate is not free.

We cannot say we have democracy or equal rights for women, when a Chinese girl with 9A1s cannot enter a university.. A girl without a job has no rights. We cannot say we have freedom of choice when a man cannot feed his family.A starving man has no choice. Liberty, democracy and freedom are meaningless words when there is no justice. Justice is political liberty. Justice is economic independence. Justice is equality.

There is no political liberty when you vote out of fear. There is no economic independence when you giveyour support out of fear your son’s scholarship will be withdrawn or your license will be withdrawn.There is no freedom of choice when you elect a party out of fear for your contract or your business. This is what has been happening in these 52 years and this will continue if we do not act. There will be many more Teoh Beng Hocks and many more Port Klang Free Zones if we do not stop them.

What One Malaysia? Najib says he wants One Malaysia. Teoh Beng Hock’s death has hocked us back to reality. We cannot just listen to rhetoric. We must look at the deeds. When we look, we see what has been done, is a far cry from what has been said. The Perak government has been stolen from its people. Najib has now declared his intention to grab the Selangor government.

The MACC is a tool. It is used to de-stabilize the Pakatan Rakyat government. Teoh Beng Hock was interrogated throughout the night. He was grilled forbuying RM2,400 worth of Malaysian flags. No one has been grilled when PKFZ loss RM12.6 billion. The MACC officers are raiding the Pakatan Excomembers’office so often they are becoming fixtures. Cars and cows and Malaysian flags have become a fixation of the MACC.

MACC has not shown the same enthusiasm when it comes to BN assemblymen who used up their annual allocation of RM500,000 in 2 months before the generalelections. The MACC has also not shown any interest in the trips by the former chief minister and his family to study the river system in Disney Land. There is no investigation into how the former chief minister can afford to purchase a multi-million ringgit mansion that is beyond the means of a chief minister’s salary. Barisan Nasional machinery is now on the move.Books attacking Anwar Ibrahim and Khalid Ibrahim are being distributed. The authors of these books are sowing the seeds of hatred and contempt. They desecrate the Hindu’s sacred cow in a protest filled with bigotry. They protest against a Hindu temple built 150 years ago when the area was a plantation that today, just like its devotees, the estate workers, had been left behind by development.

They have forgotten Muslims were invited to practice their religion amongst the people of Yathrib. They are beating the drums of race and religion and the tone is becoming harsher with each beat. The people must now decide. There cannot be any fence sitters. There is no middle ground. When Teoh Beng Hock was thrown out, the people of Malaysia was thrown together with him into the sea of political troubles. Whether Malaysia will sink or swim is now up to the people.

The people must decide once and for all what is right and what is wrong. There cannot be a neutral ground.Dante said: “The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.” Today in Malaysia there is no place for neutrality. Malaysians must make their choice now.

If we want to know what is evil and what is right, we must use our moral compass. It is only when we know the direction where justice lies can we know where we must stand. Do we want to choose liberty and justice which are always right or do we want to choose corruption, hatred, arrogance and oppression which are always wrong?The choice is clear.

Every Malaysian must make his stand. When you stand for liberty we stand with you. I want to tell you that when you stand for liberty, we will stand with you. When you defend democracy, we will be your shield. When you fight for justice, we will be your sword. We will always be with you.They assaulted *Anwar Ibrahim. *They threw him in jail for 6 long years. They call him a traitor and worse. But Anwar will always be here to fight for you. They hounded and harassed *Lim Kit Siang. *They detained him in Kamunting.. But Lim Kit Siang will always be here to stand by you.

They attacked *Tok Guru Nik Aziz *and tried to humiliate him. But Tok Guru Nik Aziz will always be here to protect you. We have been tested. They have thrown everything they have at us but we are still standing and we are still here.We were here in November 2007 when a sea of yellow marched for a free and fair election. This was *BERSIH*. We were here in December when thousands in orange marched for equality. This was *Makal Sakthi*.This was the ripple that started the tsunami.

Barisan Nasional was swept out of 5 states. Since then BarisanNasional has become more extreme in their policies. They have become more brutal with the people. When we Hope So on 1st August, the lovers of justice and liberty marched again. Again Barisan Nasional responded with violence and brutality. 638 people including women and children were arrested. Despite the police shutting down the city, despite the many road blocks and barricades, despite the arrest of those wearing black, the number who succeeded in gathering far exceeded my expectations.But the size of the gathering cannot be bigger than my hope for Malaysia.

My hope is for every one that braved the tear gas and water cannons there will be many thousands more. We want hundreds of thousands to march with us. We will march from under the shadow of fear into the light of justice. My hope is that the flame burning in each who gathered that day will kindle the hearts and minds of many thousands more. Malaysians will find the courage to standup for principles and convictions. We must stand up for what is right.

This is my hope and this is the hope of all Malaysians.Truth, love and justice will prevail over the forces of hate and oppression. This will only happen when the silent majority refuses to remain silent anymore. This will only happen when the voice of the majority is finally heard. We must be confident that oppression and corruption cannot endure. We must take comfort that truth and justice will always prevail. But this can only be achieved if we fight for it. We must fight today for a better tomorrow.

Looking Back in the Future Do not let our children look back and say that these are dark days. Let them say that these are great days. These are the most glorious days that our country ever had. These days will be remembered as the days when we were called, we answered. We stood up. We stood together shoulder to shoulder irrespective of race or religion. We fought and we prevailed. Each of us played our part according to our strengths.Our children and their children will look back on these days and celebrate it as the days we became *ONE NATION*. These days will be etched in our Nation’s history as the days we won over injustice and oppression. These will be the days we celebrate *THE TRUE MERDEKA.

*Thank you, Xie xie , vanakam..

Have a God-blessed day.

School is Closed (today and tomorrow)

2010-01-28T20:31:00.000-08:00

So, today when I woke up the first thing that I did was to check my email. Indeed!! School will be closing at 1pm and all day tomorrow due to inclement weather. As it turns out, the weather wasnt as bad as I thought or the authority thought it would be. We get some freezing rain and a little snow (less than an inch) and that's about it. No doubt, things begining to freeze out there (doors, tree branches etc) but it doesnt seems that nasty as compared to what we had in December. In fact it is nothing at all. But well, I am not complaining having extra 2 days of holidays.. :)

Cooked Korean Rice Cake just now with fried potatos and Rendang Instant Noodle. :) Bath right away dinner and guess am having indigestion. Stomach aching now.. :(

New Bible from Curt

2010-01-21T23:31:00.000-08:00

Curt and I normally have a weekly meet up to talk about "The Story of God" As you probably already know, he's such an awesome guy and he knows so much about the bible. Has been learning a lot from him. So after telling him I'm on my journey to finish the bible in a year, he bought me a new bible - New Living Translation. According to him, it's easier to read than New American Standard that I currently has (It is from him as well. A Ryrie Study Bible) since it paraphase the bible and makes the bible flows better. So am really pump about this whole thing and the new bible! Thanks brother!

Quote for leaders

2010-01-21T15:03:00.000-08:00

Read this in "The Story of God" and I quote:

Use your position to help others out rather than using people to help you "climb the ladder". Leaders are called servant. This may be a dramatic shift in thinking from some of the modern management techniques. But it's the only way that works.

In recent world, we're so indulged in fame and earthly glory. But the bible teaches us to humble ourself upon the Lord and acknowledge the power of God.That's the way of life. Pray, my brothers and sisters..

Bible in a year

2010-01-18T14:17:00.000-08:00

Yes! Our church is having a program/challenge for us to finish reading the bible in a year. They planned out the number of verses to read each day and we'll put a check mark beside it as we accomplish it everyday. Read Matthew 1-9 today and realized there're so many powerful and uplifting verses in it.

Few of those that I love:

Matthew 5:16 Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
43"You have heard that it was said, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR and hate your enemy.'
44"But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
46"For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Matthew 6: 25"For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
26"Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?
27"And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?
33"But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. (Amen!)
34"So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Crazy Oklahoma Weather

2010-01-16T21:46:00.000-08:00

Remember the snow blizzard we had here few weeks ago? Snow started to melt few days ago and there is not much of it to be seen. When you think nice weather is coming, all of the sudden, dense fog out of nowhere comes. When i say DENSE, i meant really bad fog.. While driving, i can only obtain probably about 3-5 meters of visibility. That is how bad it is.. LAME...~~

Anyway, tomorrow I will be leading worship at church. Just done preparing for it. This is the first time I'll be doing all the praying and really lead the entire worship session (previously just play the guitar and being part of it)Hope God will calm me and use me for His glory :) Amen!!

Some pictures:

Realized I haven show you guys the composite for our CEAT Student Council yet! Can you spot me?

台湾牛肉面 (Beef Noodle) made by one of our church's sister. She's such an awesome cook from Taiwan. When asked how did he train her cooking skill, her husband (also from Taiwan) explained: Just bring her to U.S.. LOL. So true.. Scarcity of good food here will force the wife to cook some home made dishes :) That's how I'm gonna train my future wife too! haha..

Made this for my dinner just now. You must be thinking "Ewww" It's my own recipe of Steamed Mushrooms Salmon. Wonder where I came out with this recipe? Well, I just went thru my refrigerator and took out everything that can be cook, place them on a plate and steam all together with Soy Sauce. You never go wrong with that.. :P It tasted pretty good..

That's the DENSE fog outside right now. Truly insane weather... :(

Off to bed now peeps! Nights!

因你与我同行（because you walk with me)

2010-01-14T22:34:00.000-08:00

Done this video using Movie Maker last month. To be given to a couple at church who is going thru a tough time in their life. Had some complications with their new born baby. But with constant prayers, the baby, Elisha is recovering. Thank God :) God is always there listening to us.. Amen!

Al Jazeera- Inside Story (from niamah.blogspot.com)

2010-01-13T23:10:00.000-08:00

Oh My God.. My dear Malaysia.. Look at how the Malay guy (apparently with high position) reacts or reply to questions by the reporter/anchor. I almost vomid blood... Malaysia Boleh..!

Sixth Sense!

2010-01-12T22:43:00.001-08:00

Holy Crap!!! MIT's Geniuses!!!

Updates finally!

2010-01-08T09:16:00.000-08:00

So Christmas is now over but New Year is coming so so soon.. Anyway these past months has been a lot of fun for me. Will try to summarize as much as possible here

Thanksgiving:went to Jacob's grandparents house at Ark City, Kansas. Went to his uncle's Cotton field to help out on the first day. Operated a Stripper haha! It's called Stripper cause it actually strip cotton off from the stem. It's pretty cool.

Next day rode horses, shot shotguns, mattress skiing and Tamborine. Can you believe i've never got on a tamborine before??? LOL..
More shot guns and horses the next day. Forced to leave that day because Stillwater Chinese Baptist Church (SCBC) which i am part of, is having a thanksgiving party and i have to go help out and participate in..

After that is dead week, which we all need to study for our finals the following week. Spend most of my time doing project, homeworks and studying but of course not forgetting to party on friday (3 days before finals) and going to church on sunday! :) Finals went well and managed to get a 4.0 GPA again this semester. God bless me for sure!! I am honestly blessed this semester. I always party the day before my test/exams and study minimum but still managed to get 100% or highest in the entire class for my tests/exams. It's funny.. Cortney joked: You should party with us the entire finals week then! LOL

During the break, Curt left his truck with me because he will be gone for most of the break and wanted me to have something to mobilize around. He is a amazing brother in Christ to me.. :)

Went ice skating the other day with Stephanie and Rose (90). The city of Stillwater made a skating ring near main street for the holiday season. Smart idea huh? knowing that there is nothing fun to do here in Stillwater.. haha! :)

There're tons of activities planned during the Christmas season this year. First, Carolling then party at Msian student's house. Next day a Christmas party at church then another party to exchange gifts at Cortney's house. However, on Christmas eve, all of the sudden (not snowing in October, November and whole of Dec) it started to snow. Not just snow, it's blizzard! Can you believe it?

(Written on the 27th of December 2009)

> > Resuming on the 7th of January 2010
See, that's what happened so often that something arised amid updating my blog and interrupted what i wanted to post here. On that day when i was supposed to be updating my blog, my friend called and asked me to go build a snowman and didnt have the time to sit down and update it again till now.

Anyway, picking up from where i left off, the snow blizzard caused all the christmas program to be canceled. The caroling, the church christmas party, present exchange at Cortney's etc. On that day (christmas eve) when it started to snow, i called up Rose Jin and Jonathan and asked them if they wanted to go out and buy presents for the present exchange party at Cortney's at night and they agreed. We went out despite the heavy snow and for 2-3 hours we shopped around Stillwater. After all the shopping, we arrive at Cortney's house to wrap up the presents and since then, we're immobilized for dayssss! LOL. The snow just pilled up so quickly that at 4pm, they called off the caroling and by 6pm, our vehicles are stucked at the parking lot. However, Cortney came out with a brilliant idea - phone caroling haha! :) It was fun. For 2 hours we called people and sang to them (including my parents in Malaysia) hehe!

At 8pm, we decided to walk to another friend's apt (near mine) about a mile or 2 away for dinner. We walked (more of a struggle and rustle with the wind) for 5 minutes, and we're only about 100 ft away from Cortney's house. We realized we have 2 choices : 1) Back to Cortney's place and be bored 2) walk and freeze to death.. LOL. Then i saw some vehicles traveling on the main road and i realized we can actually hitch hike to where we wanted to go. That's what we did and thank God there's a mexican guy with a van who gave us a ride :)

For the next 3 days, Cortney and Rose could not go home and they decided to stay at my apt for the entire duration until the authorities started to plow the snows off the road. Even until now, snows are still everywhere except that they're now harden already.Stephanie wasnt able to join us that time because she was with her host family and they had a vacation to Missouri. :(

With those snows, Jonathan and I built a snowman. It was an ugly one cause the snow wasnt slicky enough to be rolled into a snowman. Few days later, along with Stephanie (she's back) we made an awesome one!It started to snow when we started to build it that's why the snow was perfect for snow man!! :)

Stephanie stayed over at Rose's place for a couple of days so we managed to hang out a lot. Had some fruitful time together. Roy Zhao Xin Yuan, our dear brother in Christ (we went to his house for lunch and dinner almost everyday during the snow storm because he is a good cook!) has to leave Stillwater to be back in China with his wife on the 29th of Dec. He is now safely back in China and will definitely be missing him a lot.
Henry (my roommate) came back on the 31st of Dec. Me, Jonathan and CuiYang went to pick him up at OKC and we went for vietnamese Noodles. At night, i bought some little fire crackers and had some friends over to countdown towards the new year. Messed up the house again which i just cleaned the day before. Henry clean it up after that thou.
In this new year, hope that God will continue to provide for our needs which i know He will. And pray that He will use me for His glory and I will put Him first above everything else. :) God is good, all the time.

On the 2nd of Jan, our bro ChenJun got married with Sis MinZhi. Had a wedding in our chinese church for the first time since a long long time (not sure if we even have a wedding here before). Anyway, it was such an amazing feeling to see how God bring them together and make them one.

Gen 2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Gen 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Classes is starting next week (OH NO!!) It feels like this holiday just went by like a dream. Everything's so relaxing and wonderful. :) Time to get back to reality. haha. By the way, I'll be playing the guitar for worship tomorrow with TImothy, Cortney and Rose. Hopefully everything will be well and we can bring others to worship our one and only God :)

Another thing is I already got my internship offer few months back. My company told me that there is a possibility that they will be able to send me back to Msia for the summer/internship which will be great! Otherwise I'll be based in Carroltan, Texas.Starting to miss my family after a year without seeing them. Thank God for keeping me busy and occupied so far. Also, I had a pay raise from last internship so this will help me pay for some of my tuition fee next semester (since my 2 years scholarship will be terminated end of this semester)

Few days ago, my mom told me that Andy Gan, a long time golf buddy of mine passed away at the age of 22 due to some terminal illness. After getting the news, i went to google "Andy Gan" and found his blog (golferalive.blogspot.com) and was truly touched by his faithfulness to God even at the brink of dying. He still trust God and being extraordinarily optimistic towards his illness. Thank God for his heart and I am sure he is in a better place now. Thank God .. Nevertheless, felt the lost of a friend/brother in Christ.

It's freezing cold today and tomorrow. Believe it or not, it's -3F (-16C)right now at this moment. Imagine a place much much colder than your freezer at home. LOL. It's crazy. Is it global warming? World coming to an end?

Lastly, I would end with some prayer request:

1) God will open up my dad's and grandma's heart to Him. Let them receive Him.
2) God will use us (brothers and sisters in Stillwater Chinese Baptist Church) to better serve Him and to touch lives. (p/s: Jonathan just accepted Christ few weeks back because of our prayers and guidance to him. Praise the Lord! )
3) God will help bring Stephanie Jeng to Oklahoma State University for her undergraduate studies and for God's blessings over our relationship
4) I'll be able to have my internship in Malaysia this coming summer
5) God will strengthen my family's faith in Him and all my friends who are already a beliver while touch the life of those who has not placed their faith in Him. Amen!

Peace out people! God loves us! :)

We're Official

2009-12-23T01:28:00.000-08:00

Sorry guys for abandoning my blog for such a long time. Not sure if there's anyone who will be reading my blog anymore haha! Will do an update as soon as possible (after Christmas for sure).

Just to share with you guys a good news:

We're official and it's been a month now!!

Her name's Stephanie Jeng Yun (郑昀）and she's from Taiwan. Met her in our chinese church. She's amazing and i thank God for bringing her into my life.. :)

Will definitely put God as our priority and honor Him with our relationship! Hope that whoever who reads this will help us and give us a sanity check once in a while to make sure we're not backsliding but instead growing in Christ together.. Love you guys specially my family back home (yall are great!) and love you dear..

May God be with us always.. Merry Christmas!! Rejoice! Our savior is born!

2009-12-03T09:43:00.000-08:00

Saw this comment on one of Patrick Teoh's post (niamah.blogspot.com) and i quote:

Caveman becomes law enforcers.

Uneducated morons becomes leaders.

Murderers becomes prime ministers.

Fuckers become contest for MCA.

Idiots becomes idols.

Niamah becomes a place to vent anger and frustration.

Sounds like ZAMAN Jahiliah The dark ages are sweeping soon

ThanksGiving Break

2009-11-23T22:17:00.001-08:00

Woohoo! It's the time of the year again. Thanksgiving break! At Cortney's place now. There will only be one class tmr and after that it's break from Wednesday until Sunday! Will be going to Jacob's grandparents house at Kansas to experience some American culture. From Wednesday till Friday.

Anyway, I am really grateful to have been here in Stillwater. This semester, God has truly shown me His way and i've grown closer and stronger in Him. I've learn to put Him first in my life and trust that He is in control of everything. Thank God for my family and friends who have kept me accompanied. Thank God for bringing me to the Chinese Church which i learn to serve Him and knew many brothers and sisters who loved me so dearly. Although i'm far from home, God has kept me near to my family in heart. God is good, all the time.. And all the time, God is good.

Will continue to put God as my top priority and always pray to Him. :) A meaningful lyrics:

What a friend we have in Jesus,
All our sins and griefs to bears,
What a privilege to carry,
everything to God in prayer.
O what peace we often forfeit,
O what needless pain we bear,
All because we do not carry,
Everything to God in prayer.

Have we trials and temptations?
Is there trouble anywhere?
We should never be discouraged;
take it to the Lord in prayer.
Can we find a friend so faithful
who will all our sorrows share?
Jesus knows our every weakness;
take it to the Lord in prayer.

Are we weak and heavy laden,
cumbered with a load of care?
Precious Savior, still our refuge;
take it to the Lord in prayer.
Do thy friends despise, forsake thee?
Take it to the Lord in prayer!
In his arms he'll take and shield thee;
thou wilt find a solace there.

Amen!

Robot! :)

2009-11-09T20:10:00.000-08:00

If you have talked to me recently, you probably know that i've been really busy with my ROBOT! Yes!! Robot.. We're building a robot for our class from SCRATCH! from aluminum sheet, aluminum bars, plastics and stuff we just make everything, design it, and build it! :)

The competition was yesterday(sunday) and it lasted from 230 pm to 630pm. It's a triple eliminations means that each team have got to lose 3 times in order to be eliminated. There 're around 14 teams competing.

The rules: There are 3 balls placed on the divider ; a bowling ball and 2 billiard balls. At the end of 90 seconds, the team with most balls on their side, loses. Also, the plane of the divider extends infinity. :)

A few look at our machine:
"The Scorpion" with it's extendable arm..

"The Scorpion"

Bad A** machine

Our team, the judge, Kevin Moore and our professor, Dr Delahoussaye

The 2 finalist team..

Okay! So this is how it went:

I'm the controller throughout the competition, and as the pictures shows, we got to the final. We won 5 matches against 4 machines in a row which made us the winner of all. (undefeated yet) Then we rested for 2 hours while other machines fight among themselve and another 2 machinese emerged among them. Both the machines have lost twice (one of them beaten by us twice).

We're pretty much the top 3 by now. So we went head on with the other team (not the one we beaten twice) and we won!! So they 're eliminated. Once again, we're up against the same machine we've beaten twice. We only have to beat them one more time to get the championship while they got to beat us 3 times IN A ROW. We lost all 3 in the row!!! Can you believe it? I almost could not trust what i see.. Was so disappointed but thought we did pretty good given that we're only hoping to get past the first round. :P We're then invited to OSU Tulsa to compete with their machine on thursday. Will see how that goes...

After that was exhausted but was asked to go to Cortney's house for dinner. Ended up with karaoke until 1230 pm on a Sunday, the day before my Thermodynamics II Midterm 2!!! But well, managed to study just enough for the test and guess i did pretty well on it. So no worriies mom and dad! :)

I'm glad i am finally out of the lab working on our machine. However, lots of tests, homeworks and another project (analyzing OSU Power Plant) coming up! :( Pray for strength in me thru my "daddy" from heaven.

p/s check out videos of all the matches on facebook! :)

Haley

2009-10-28T21:16:00.000-07:00

Introduced to me by my buddy, Jacob. Beautiful song and lyrics..

Haley
If you don't know just how you feel,
Don't say hose sweet things That you know I'd wanna hear
If you don't know just what to think,
Then put your thoughts awayAnd keep them out of reach

Haley don't hurt me If you don't know
I could have moved on a long time ago
You're undecided, your eyes do show
Haley don't hurt me if you don't know
If you don't know just where we are
Then slowly step away before we get too far
If you don't know just where you stand
Don't brace a fall that you may never want to land

Haley don't hurt me if you don't know
I could have moved on a long time ago
You're undecided, your eyes do show
Haley don't hurt me if you don't know

We're on and off again
It's more than I can stand
So let me know if you're for real this time
Your voice, it shook again
Reminded me of when
We talked our way into the end

Six Flags

2009-10-11T17:24:00.000-07:00

Just came back from Six Flags and we totally dominated it !!!

We went for most of the huge roller coasters there! Had so much fun. Will be posting up photos and videos soon since i'm pretty much back to homework now. A brief summary of how we put Six Flags over Texas to shame :

Titan - rode 3 times
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPS25WItiZ0

Batman- twice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ib6OxyWJ6M

Texas Giant - twice (This ride hurts/shakes like crazy but still fun thou) - voted the best wooden roller coaster in the world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBfsvDS5Ysw

Mr Freeze - twice -voted the coolest roller coaster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY0QV5qIydY

Shock wave - once - world's first double loop (continuous) roller coaster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEoivHAGkog

Judge Roy Scream- once
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2So_zou5gZs

Dive Bomber Alley - (additional fee of 21 bucks but it's the climax of the day!! craziest thing i've ever done!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWwPJgvOmv8 (start from 3.00 minute)

&
a few other rides which I dont really remember but these are the main ones..

It was cooling the entire day (about 10 C) and we rode from 10am to 10pm. The experience of riding in the day and in the night was totally different. So much more awesome when you cant see anything but lights at night. Also riding on the first seat and the last was different too! I would recommend trying both because it gives you complete feel of it when you do that.. :) Great day!

Worship!

2009-10-08T19:39:00.000-07:00

Exciting exciting!! Tomorrow i'll be leading a song of worship at the Chinese Church Friday Fellowship ! I'll be singing "How can i keep from singing" by Chris Tomlin. I've always wanted to lead worship since i learned guitar and to finally be able to step up and serve God is great!! Hopefully everything will go great but the most important thing is to bring honor to God himself. Whether i sang great or not, spirit and the truth in worshiping him is what He seeks (John 4:23-24)

Last week our church had Mid-Autumn festival celebration. I was part of the welcoming skit (played a rich brat who can get anything he wants but still have a vacancy in his heart because he do not have God) It was a great time spend with fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. After it ends, we had a surprise party for Stephanie Jeng whom is an exchange student from Taiwan. She's only 17 years old and already away from home! She definitely misses home very much!! She's staying with a host family now. Although might be lonely, she know that she have us (bro and sister) for her! She was shocked and touched by the surprise birthday cake! :) It's funny to see her reaction. It's priceless... Also, it's good to finally see someone studying here who is younger than me.

Surprise!!

The rich brat (s) LOL

If you've my faceobook, you've probably seen this picture (it's my profile pic now) She's 乐乐 or Senta.. American born chinese? Or maybe moved here when she's really young. Anyway, she speaks with American accent. She's just so cute and pretty! And for now since i'm single, she'll be my little girlfriend! Shhh.. :P

Aha! Finally decided to remove all our rented furniture and bought our own. Bought this desk for about 100 USD while gotten a used mattress from one of our sister from church. My room is looking good.. :)

Greatest commandment indeed..

A peep into the new layout of my room..

Cortney's favorite verse

New mug too! Good color choice Cortney.. haha!

Tomorrow is fall break means there wont be any classes! Will be going to Arlington, TX for Six Flags on saturday and will be back on Sunday ! It will be fun!! Wooohooo...! A few roller coasters that i'll be conquering will be these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPS25WItiZ0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W09oDrMUkx8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ib6OxyWJ6M&feature=related

I hope i dont poop on my pants. hahaha!

After this weekend, will be a tough week. Will be having 2 tests, 3 homeworks, 2 meetings, 3 tutoring sessions, 1 golf tournament! Let's enjoy first and work later. -the procrastinator quote-

2009-10-04T16:40:00.000-07:00

Went to watch Grambling State VS OSU game the other day! Record attendance of 56,000 people! Go cowboys! Went to New China (Chinese buffet) for dinner after that.

Few weeks ago, our church had a communion service. This is the first time in 20 over years they've ever done it during the morning service when there are over 1000 people attend. And believe it or not, it is a pre-packaged communion set. How cool is that.

Went golfing the other day, with the Camry that we rented. Because some senior rented it for us, it is so cheap! Only 28 dollars for 3 days! :) We went church in the morning, then played a while of musics until about 3 pm only went for golf. After golf, went for a steak buffet dinner. After dinner, went for pool at a bowling alley. I cant bowl because of some personal reason... therefore we did not do bowling. Too bad!!

Nice Toyata Camry! Felt in love with it!

Best burger in the world!! Woooot! Carl's Jr..

Hahaha.. Cortney love to take photos of hands..

Cortney (Taiwan), Mio (Japanese), Forgotten his name (Korean) and something else (Indonesia).. Multicultural..

Went for Mio's wedding. Cortney was suppose to be the bridesmate but we totally missed her wedding. We thought it should only take about 2 hours max to reach but who knows, it took us 3 hours one waY!!! Nevertheless, we get to spend some quality time with her in a small blue church and congratulates her. It was a fun day! Went for karaoke at a friend's house after the 6 hours drive.

International Olympics 2-3 weeks ago, where i played doubles in table tennis. We got runner-up!! BUt i am so not happy.. Cause there's only 2 teams playing.. hahaha!

My new OSU tie! Pretty cool.

The desperation for Msian food emerged and this is a great anticeptics.

New poster for my room!

Bought a capo, Picks holder and a guitar stand ! :)

My new decorations for my room.

Back to school. Should have post this long time ago. Anyway, enjoy and hopefully more to come! Check out some awesome photos on facebook. My friend had a EOS so all the photos should be great! :)

Workout

2009-09-24T04:39:00.000-07:00

Will be starting my workout schedule today ! Decided to keep my body healthy and fit ! It's 640 am here (and 51F) and i am ready to go for a jog and hit the gym after that. Will be doing this at least 4 times a week. See how it goes. :) Wish me luck..

Also, all the best to my younger bro who is having his A levels exam soon! Help to pray for God guidance in him! Thanks!

想念

2009-09-18T00:27:00.000-07:00

好想念马来西亚的朋友，生活和家庭！睡不着。：（

WuTravel

2009-09-04T23:24:00.001-07:00

Thinking about a paradise hideaway from all the hustle and bustle of homeworks, office job, house chores??? Look no further, newly founded, WuTravel offers thousands of hotels and travel destinations to chose from, with best offer, just a click on WuTravel.com.

It is a search machine recently founded in Singapore which is able to search thousands of hotels around Asia and i was really impress with them. Unlike most of the site out there which requires commissions or some complicated ways to search for travel destinations, WuTravel is simple to use and efficient. For example, click on let's say Malaysia (I love my country) then Genting Highlands (I love the weather there..) and chose the date you wish to have your vacations and this search machine will do the rest for you and be ready to get low prices from your dream hotels!!! It's that easy! Try it for yourself...

You'll never know when this will come handy to you.. :)

niamah.blogspot.com

2009-09-04T12:58:00.000-07:00

Patrick Teoh's blog : Niamah.blogspot.com has always been of interest to me. But recently these few posts by him were classics and definitely cracks me up!! Go read it!! Read also some of the comments on his posts.

Great speech

2009-09-02T10:40:00.001-07:00

Recently watched the video of Hishamuddin addressing the media regarding the cow-head protest incident. Was impressed with how he dealt with the problem. Truly, those who brought the cow-head to protest on the street was victimized and we have to understand their feeling and cater to their needs. Truly that these protesters does not invoke racial conflict by bringing the holy cow head (in Hindu) on the street. Truly ISA should not be used against them but instead towards opposition party. Truly Malaysia Boleh.

See for yourself: http://www.malaysiakini.tv/video/17715/hisham-dont-blame-cow-head-protestors.html

Watch the last few minutes when the penduduk says: Kami tidak akan berganjak walaupun seinci, walau nyawa habis, walau darah mengalir, kami tetap pertahankan skesyen 23 daripada membina kuil... (such a heroic speech, wish they could use it in a better way/sense)

How about the demolision of church? Should we bring a pig head and go on the street too?? Hmm.... (http://pluralism.org/news/view/16732)

MERDEKA!! MERDEKA!! MERDEKA!!

2009-08-29T23:00:00.001-07:00

Wishing our beloved Malaysia Happy 52nd Birthday !! Merdeka!!! and Malaysia Boleh!! :)

To all muslims in Malaysia, SELAMAT BERPUASA!!

Life's plan

2009-08-27T12:32:00.000-07:00

Give some comments on which one looks the most stable. :)

Help me make my decision.. LOL

How great is our God

2009-08-26T20:49:00.000-07:00

This is a simple yet powerful song. We often forget how mighty our God is and that He is above all. Great song to listen to when you are faced with problems in life. It reminds you that you are not alone, in fact God is always watching over us.

Although i did not played the guitar perfectly and sing well, His praise shall continually be in my mouth (Ps 34:1) Be it true to all believers..

Final decision

2009-08-22T20:55:00.000-07:00

Last few days have posted some challenges/complications that require me making some important decisions. However, after a long thought and getting advises from my parents and friends, I had all figure out!!

(1)
Problem: 5 courses this semester have proved to be too much for me given that i just came back from my internship and did not have any break before school reopen

Decision: Drop one and take only 12 credit hours this semester. Although it seems like a petite decision, chosing the right subject to drop is no easy task. I've bought the text book for the class that i dropped (cost me 150 bucks) that is why i was reluctant to drop it previously. Wanted to drop the other class but it would clash with other classes next semester and might eventually hinder me from graduating on time!!

(2)
Problem: YuJun called me on thursday night and told me that Dr Thompson told him Halliburton did not sent us our scholarship this year YET!! (tuition fee is going to due soon)
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Outcome: The next day, we received an email that Halliburton finally decided to give us the left over scholarship!! (God really came through here)

(3)
Problem: Should i go home end of this year??

Decision: Because i am taking an easy (not really easy) semester, i'll be having a tough next semester (5 subjects) Instead of going home for a month and come back here on the day when school starts (too much hustle), i've decided to study over the break and prepare myself for next semester. Also, take the opportunity to travel around U.S. Planning for a skiing trip and a Florida trip!! See how it goes.. :)

There're a few more things that i've decided but dont think it is appropriate to write it here. In a nutshell, i've everything finally planned out and am loving my life.. ONCE AGAIN!! :)

Eventful Week (s)

2009-08-19T19:28:00.000-07:00

It's been a while since i last truly update what i am up to recently. Reason behind it is that nothing interesting happens but the past weeks have been totally the polar opposite! I had so much going on that i do not have time to update my blog!!!!

Let me start from 2 saturdays ago (8/8/09) :

In the morning, we (Sam, Tim, Jennifer and I) went to the nearby Humane Society for some community service since Halliburton stress a lot on giving back to the society!!! We spent about 2 hours cleaning up cages, walking the dog and ... what else... hmm... Anyway, it was a lot of fun. The dogs there are friendly and nice. Few of the workers there have to take care of all 40ish dogs and God knows how many other pets in there. Great work indeed that they are doing.

Very chicky little dog..

Group photo.. I really am not as fat as seen on this photo..:)

In the afternoon, we went to Jennifer's house to get lunch (she prepared) since both Tim and I are leaving. We had a great time and at 3pm we went to Rush Spring for Watermelon festival!! This is one of the best festivals i've ever been to. Rush Spring is the so called watermelon capital in the United States and we're only 20 minutes drive away!! They have watermelon competition/ rides/ souvenior stalls and the best of all, FREE WATERMELON!!! lol. Awesome.. We spend sometime there and took 2 SLICES of watermelon each! You'll know why i upper cased the word "SLICE" later.

Bad ass..

Yeah!! This is the so called one "SLICE" Now you know..

Heaviest watermelon in the festival!! Crazy.. Heavier than Henry. lol

We rode this before getting some watermelon it was fun!

Imagine how many watermelon they "killed" that day..!

10 bucks souvenior

Then at night, we went to watch "G.I Joe"! It was awesome in terms of special effects but plots still sucks!! lol It was fun thou. 2 of my friends came from INTI Nilai on that night and one of my friends arranged transport and housing for them while i am away in Duncan.

Next day, I went for church then eat out for lunch. Later, John Slate brought me to the gun range where he is a member of. Sam followed us as well. This is the first time i've ever shot a gun. We went without ear buds because we didnt want to take the trouble to look for one. After just one shot of hand gun my ear rings non stop!!!! It was so freaking loud! After 3-4 shots i couldnt stand it anymore and i went to John's car and used his old / dirty ear bud just so i would at least have a protection. It was fun but not too fun since now my ear "rings" and i am worried about my final presentation scheduled 2 days later :(

Fuyoh.. Bergaya..
Just one shot of Shot Gun

See how i stepped back after the gun kicked back. Funny. I am becoming a redneck!! Oh no!!

Pro Shooter

Next 2 days were spent practicing my presentation. On the day of presentation, i was so pumped and prepared. I went all out during my presentation and i thought i did really well. I am glad that i didnt let my nerves get the better of me. However, the evaluation process by the managers was nerve-wrecking. We were told to stay outside while all the mangers discuss about our performance during the presentation and throughout the summer. After about 10 minutes, i was called in the room and the Supply Chain Management manager, Tracy sat down with me and told me that all the comments were positive and they really like what i did during the summer!! I almost could not contain my joy and almost burst out with joy!! but the best part has not arrive yet......(drum rolls)..........she handed me a letter of offer for another internship next summer!!! :) How awesome is that?? At the beginning of the summer, i told myself that my short term goal is to get another internship next summer and i really fullfilled it! God is with me all the time i am sure..

She also handed me a few T Shirts and some Halliburton souveniors. All of the sudden, she handed me a Halliburton duffel bag and told me that i came in second in HOC competition - a competititon where the intern who wrote the most Hazard Observation Card wins. I truly did not expect to come in second as i did not do a whole bunch of it. I thought i did just enough to get by with but apparently that is enough to secure a duffel bag. lol. It was another dose of joy-injection. :)

Me, Tracy and Tim

Immediately getting off work that day, Tim and I went to rent some classics American movies again and watched them. At night, we went for another session of wallyball and on thursday the last session where we left with a fun/exhausting memory somewhere deep in our mind.

The awesome wallyball team!

On wednesday, my colleague/officemate brought me out to the lake for fishing. I think i've fished once in Malaysia but not in a "century" now. I caught a fish on my first cast!!!!! Although it is just a small fish but still.. lol. I love casting it is just so cool hearing the sound of the reel turns. Other than that little bass, no one caught anything for 2 hours until it is pretty much dark and i told Warren and Tim that we're not allow to go home if we do not at least catch one more. After making this offer, i finally caught another one!!! Yeah!!! lol. This one is bigger than the previous one. I feel like the hero of the day catching 2 fishes while the others nil. :)

Wait....

for......

it........

Nice view of the lake
That's the fish that gave us the thumbs up to finally leave and go home!

Man.. i really dont feel like elaborating anymore. Let me summarize it on the activities for the rest of the week:

Farewell to colleagues at work on friday, went shooting once again (with ear buds) and at night went for a church cookout. They planned that for me since i am leaving the next day. It was a fruitful time and they're all real nice people.

Church guys (pastor on the right hand side)

The guys..

After the cookout, i went home and watched some movies and got drunk with Tim since it's our last night. Took 4 bottles of Heineken and 4 shots of Tequila. Got totally knocked out at around 3am!! Next day, woke up at 630am and went fishing again with Warren. Because i was so hung up with fishing i told him to bring me for fishing again before i leave on saturday. Obviously, i had a hang over!! Not feeling well at all but the relaxing atmosphere manage to calm me down and let me feel better. We caught over 10 fishes that morning!

Beautiful view/morning.. God is good. :)

Fishing while hang over-ing...?
Nice one..

Went home at around 9am and lie down and took a rest while Tim packed up. He left at 10am and i only started packing by then. I left Duncan at 1pm finally. (my friend, Timothy came from OSU to pick me up)

See how much Tim drank ( assisted a little by me) lol

We stopped by at OKC and got some chinese food. It was great! I did not have any chinese food pretty much for the entire summer. Good to see something dear to me. (chinese and food)

Anyway, arrived in Stillwater at 630 and had a gathering with MSS till about 11pm and was a dead fish by then. My alcohol also wore off by then which is good.. Nothing special happens next day (church, lunch, hang out with friends) I am glad that i am finally back in Stillwater. Starting to fall in love with college life now after working for the summer. More flexible and more friends too!

Anyway, this semester came so many freshman and of course more pretty girls too! How nice is that? LOL. However, i am predicting a very very busy semester. I took 5 courses this semester so to fullfil my scholarship requirement: (1)Fluid Mechanics (2) Material Science (3) Thermodynamics 2 (4) Engineering machining design (5) System I

From what i heard from my senior this pretty much is a suicide combinations.. Sigh. 3 labs included too! I am thinking about dropping my tutoring work this semester or my student council. Am still considering. Anyhow, went to buy the season ticket for college football today (costed 172 bucks) Prepare for some awesome-ness!!!

That's all for now. Sorry for the extremely long-winded and long updates! More photos could be seen on my facebook profile. Adios people..

Be aware of our politics!

2009-08-13T06:27:00.001-07:00

As a fellow Malaysian, i recommend you all to keep updated with news relating to our dear Malaysia. It is grief stricken opening the web site everyday and read about how the government manipulate the "rakyat" to their own advantage. With them realizing that more and more young Malaysian is turning our back towards the evil schemed "BN" it is as if they are grasping what they can now before the "ship" sinks. (stealing of Perak from opposition, sudden death of Selangor political secretary, Teoh Beng Hock are just the tip of an iceberg)

Few sites i would recommend you to keep updated with are:

http://blog.limkitsiang.com/
http://tonypua.blogspot.com/
http://niamah.blogspot.com/ (this is not as factual but good-to-know / hilarious site)
http://www.malaysiakini.com/
http://margeemar.blogspot.com/
http://hannahyeoh.blogspot.com/

I hope we can together bring the once peaceful Malaysia back and live harmoniously with all races. Together, we can make a difference. (since most of us will be old enough to vote for the next general election)

p/s: would appreciate it if the words could be spread out. Thanks my dear Malaysians.

>> This is a personal thought and is not created to instill national hatred among citizens of Malaysia. Take it or leave it ..

A Malaysian Studying Abroad (one of many)

2009-07-29T18:42:00.000-07:00

I HAVE been meaning to pen some thoughts for some time now, to let people actually read the views of the typical 'overseas Malaysian' who is kept away. I realise that my email is rather long, but I do hope that you would consider publishing it (and also keep my name private!). I shall start by telling a little about my background. Mine is a rather sad tale – of a young Malaysian full of hope and patriotic enthusiasm, which is slowly but surely trickling away.

I am very different from many other non-bumiputeras, as I was given tremendous opportunities throughout my childhood. Born into a middle-class Chinese but English-speaking family, I grew up with all the privileges of imported books, computers, piano/violin lessons and tuition teachers. My parents insisted that I should be exposed to a multi-racial education in a national school. In my time, my urban national school (a missionary school) was a truly happy place – where the Malays, Chinese and Indian students were roughly equal in proportion. We played and laughed with each other, and studied the history of the world together during Form 4, with one interesting chapter dedicated to Islamic history. Though 75% of my teachers were Malays, I never really noticed. My Malay teachers were the kindest to me – teaching me well and offering me every possible opportunity to develop. I led the district teams for English and Bahasa Malaysia debating competitions. I was the only non-Malay finalist in the Bahasa Malaysian state-level elocution competition. My Malay teachers encouraged me to transfer to a government residential school (sekolah berasrama penuh) so as to enable me to maximise my academic potential. I refused because I was happy where I was, so they made me head prefect and nominated me as a 'Tokoh Pelajar Kebangsaan'. Till this day, I am absolutely certain that it was the kindness of all my Malay teachers which made me a true Malaysian. I excelled at school and was offered a Singaporean government scholarship to study overseas. I turned them down because I wanted to ensure that I would remain a 'true Malaysian' in the eyes of Malaysia. So I accepted a Malaysian government scholarship to study at Oxford University.

Throughout my three years as an undergraduate, the officers at the MSD looked after me very well, and was always there to offer support. I graduated with first class honours, and was offered a job with a leading investment bank. The JPA released me from my bond, so as to enable me to develop my potential. I shall always be grateful for that. I worked hard and rose in rank. My employer sent to me to Harvard University for postgraduate study and I climbed further up their meritocratic ladder. Now I am 31 years old and draw a comfortable monthly salary of US$22,000. Yet, I yearn to return home. I miss my home, my family, my friends, my Malaysian hawker food and the life in Malaysia. I have been asked many times by Singaporean government agencies to join them on very lucrative terms, but I have always refused due to my inherent patriotism. Crushing down I really want to return home. I have been told by government-linked corporations and private companies in Malaysia that at best, I would still have to take a 70% pay cut if I return to Malaysia to work. I am prepared and willing to accept that. My country has done a lot for me, so I should not complain about money. But of late, my idealistic vision of my country has really come crashing down, harder and faster than ever before.

I read about the annual fiasco involving non-bumiputera top scorers who are denied entry to critical courses at local universities and are offered forestry and fisheries instead. (My cousin scored 10A1's for SPM and yet was denied a scholarship).
I read about Umno Youth attacking the so-called meritocracy system because there are less than 60% of Malay students in law and pharmacy, whilst conveniently keeping silent about the fact that 90% of overseas scholarship recipients are Malays and that Malays form the vast majority in courses like medicine, accountancy and engineering at local universities. I read about the Higher Education Minister promising that non-bumiputera Malaysians will never ever step foot into UiTM. I read about a poor Chinese teacher's daughter with 11A1's being denied a scholarship, while I know some Malay friends who scored 7A's and whose parents are millionaires being given scholarships.

I read about the brilliant Prof KS Jomo (right), who was denied a promotion to Senior Professor (not even to Head of Department), although he was backed by references from three Nobel Prize winners. Of course, his talent is recognised by a prestigious appointment at the United Nations. I read about Umno Youth accusing Chinese schools of being detrimental to racial integration, while demanding that Mara Junior Science Colleges and other residential schools be kept only for Malays. I read about the Malay newspaper editors attacking the private sector for not appointing enough Malays to senior management level, whilst insisting that the government always ensure that Malays dominate anything government-related. I read that at our local universities, not a single vice-chancellor or deputy vice-chancellor is non-Malay. I read that in the government, not a single secretary-general of any ministry is non-Malay. The same goes for all government agencies like the police, armed forces, etc. I read about Umno screaming for the Malay Agenda, but accusing everyone else of racism for whispering about equality. I tremble with fear I read about a poor Indian lady having to pay full price for a low-cost house after being dispossessed from a plantation, whilst Malay millionaires demand their 10% bumiputera discount when buying RM2 million bungalows in a gated community. I read about my beloved national schools becoming more and more Islamic by the day, enforced by overzealous principals. I read about my Form 4 World History (Sejarah Dunia) syllabus, which now contains only one chapter of world history, with Islamic history covering the rest of the book.

As I read all this, I tremble with fear. I love my country and long to return. I am willing to take a 70% pay cut. I am willing to face a demotion. I honestly want to contribute my expertise in complex financial services and capital markets. But really, is there a future for me, for my children and for their children? I am truly frightened. I can deal with the lack of democracy, the lack of press freedom, the ISA, our inefficient and bureaucratic civil service, our awful manners and even a little corruption. But I cannot deal with racism in my homeland. I think this is the single biggest factor which is keeping people like myself away. And bear in mind – there are so many of us (researchers, scientists, bankers, economists, lawyers, academics, etc.).

What people read about in Malaysia (like Dr Terence Gomez) is but the tiniest tip of the iceberg.
You will be amazed to know about Malaysians denied JPA scholarships (which would have made them civil servants), took loans to attend Ivy League universities, but who are later asked to advise our government (on IT, economics, etc.) at fees running to millions of US dollars. Such information will never be published because it is politically incorrect. As a Christian, I pray for God's blessing on this great country of ours. I pray that He blesses our leaders with the foresight and humanity to see that this will not work and cannot continue. I pray that they will have the strength to make our country a home for all Malaysians and that they will have mercy for the poor, including the non-Malays. I pray for true racial harmony and acceptance (not just tolerance) in Malaysia.

- Yours sincerely, A very frightened Malaysian abroad.

God, Give us clean Hand and Pure heart to Worship You..

2009-07-26T10:40:00.000-07:00

Ps 95:6-7

Come Let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker

For He is our God And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand. Today if you would hear His voice

Update!

2009-07-13T17:07:00.000-07:00

Finally i found the desire/mood/passion/libido??/hanker to update about my recent life! Something funny yet awesome happened today! We've decided to return all the furniture and stop paying 650 dollar per month for our furniture rental. However, because we've paid for the entire month, they were only able to refund us 215 dollars of the 650 dollar although we only used for less than 2 weeks this month. But well, we should be grateful that they do refund us. A new look into my apartment and room :
Aint it looks comfy.. lol

Also, yesterday after church i was invited over to my buddy's house for lunch. His wife cooked us a good meal and their son, Landon is just so adorable. It was a great afternoon. The rest of the day was spent in laundry and movies. Again, i'm continuing my movie streak/freak. Will be going down to Dallas this coming weekend for some stand up comedy club and movies on the big screen. It's been hot here as well these days. It was 40 degree celcius today (105F)

That's his shotguns Awesome..

Beautiful couple..

Woot! :)

Little Landon..

My summer project has been well and soon will be doing my final presentation. Hope it's gonna be good. Till then.. Take care!

Movie Review 2

2009-06-27T12:00:00.000-07:00

Lol! All of the sudden, i remembered doing a movie review when i first started this blog so after 10 months, i'm ready to do another given that i've watched a lot of movies these days (there's no better things to do here) and also i dont know what to update on my blog in order to keep it alive!! I've watched Terminator Salvation, UP 3D, Night in the museum, Drag me to hell, Hangover, Transformer, Imagine That, and Taking of Pelham 123 in the cinema not to mention Fired Up, Street Fighters and others online. So, i'll be reviewing some new movies and keeping older ones behind. FYI, you can watch a lot of great movie on this website for free ( http://www.hd.openv.com/)

Review:

Story Line: 4/5

Entertainment: 5/5

Effects:3/5

Value for money: 4.5/5

Comments: Extremely great/hilarious/crazy movie of the summer. Definitely one of the best comedies i've ever watched. Not much of crazy effects but story line and the content of it is already worth all of your money to watch it. Highly recommended.

Story Line: 2.5/5
Entertainment: 4/5
Effects:5/5
Value for money: 4/5

Comments: 2 hours ++ long of super special effects and ultra awesome stuffs but end of the day, there's not much content/plot to it. It is one of those recommended movie where you watch it in the cinema for the sake of the sound systems and special effects. Other than that, nothing much. As one of the critics said: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a noisy, underplotted, and overlong special effects extravaganza that lacks a human touch.

And the main reason why Megan Fox is still in the movie is simply because she's smokin hot. Her acting skill? Tsk Tsk..Watch it and you know what i meant..

Story Line: 4/5
Entertainment: 4/5
Effects:3/5
Value for money: 3/5

Comments: Movies by Eddy Murphy is always good including this Nicklodeon production. Great story line and it's funny too but watching it in the cinema? Not much different than watching it on the TV or online. Definitely a good movie but not to the extent that you should rush to the cinema and watch it. Touching and meaningful movie thou.

Story Line: 4/5
Entertainment: 4/5
Effects:4/5
Value for money: 4/5

Comments: Great movie that will get your adrenaline running for sure. If you like action/suspence movie this will be yours. Good story line and good actor as well. Definitely worth watching (in cinema).

Story Line: 3/5
Entertainment: 3/5
Effects:4.5/5
Value for money: 3/5
Comments: I dont know if this movie was meant to be watched by teenagers as well or just for kids as i find it a little childish and the story line boring. However, it is not a bad movie thou. Just not as good, at least to me.

That's it for me. By the way, the summer here been pretty crazy. It gets bright at 6am and only gets dark at 9pm. Day time temperature can touch up to 40 C with little humidity, not that bad as you cant sweat as much. Internship has been great so far. Nothing much coming up until my final presentation in August then back to school! :) Cant Wait actually.. lol. Till then..

To the Editor of The Star : To make a mistake once is human, to make it twice is a fool

2009-06-08T09:23:00.000-07:00

To the Editor of The Star,

I hereby refer to the column PAS: Stop Teaching Science and Math in English published Monday 8th of June 2009 and think that it is absolutely absurd. The government has made the best action of all time by changing the teaching of Science and Math to English, why return to what is wrong?

I am currently pursuing Mechanical Engineering Bachelor degree under a scholarship in Oklahoma State University, United States, in which I was made known how important English language is. I was fortunate enough to be born into an English-speaking family and was sent to Chinese Primary school and was enrolled in a Government Secondary School therefore could converse well in all 3 languages. However, I was among the last batch of students who was tangled with learning Science and Math in Bahasa Melayu. I did not find it to be problematic until I was in College when I needed to translate every Science and Math term to English, especially being a Mechanical Engineering major which has a strong emphasis on these subjects. Needless to say, it is a pain in the ass and a period of frustration given the transition from Secondary School to College is tough for a teenager. Could you then imagine the impact that it will do to a student who do not have a good English education background?

Besides, looking at the comment made by Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin that asserted the importance of English in everyday’s life, I do not see why we should not have Science and Math to be taught in English. I understand the importance of Bahasa Melayu in Malaysia and Indonesia, but without a good command of English language, how far can we (our country) go, in terms of development and economy? Just to illustrate, being a country of only the size of Kuala Lumpur, Singapore has shown such a great aura and established itself as one of the most developed country in the world, despite having none of the luxury in natural resources like Malaysia has. This is simply because the government focuses on the development of English as the core language. Not being sardonic to the Malaysia’s government, but being a graduate from United Kingdom with Double Starred First Class Honor, Lee Kuan Yew has the exposure to realize the importance of English as a medium of communication when he became the first Prime Minister of Singapore. I was thwarted and shocked when most of the counterparts/college mates that I talked to in the United States know where exactly Singapore is on the map but not knowing where Malaysia is.

To wrap things up, I would like to urge every citizen in Malaysia to appreciate our country, Malaysia, because I came to realized how wonderful our country is, with all the great food and people, only when I came to the States. Although the so-called democratic government does not always rule in a plausible manner, it is still our country. And to the government, do not add salt to the wound by having Science and Math taught in Bahasa Melayu anymore. Give and Take attitude should be adopted.

Eldrick Saw
Halliburton
SCMP Summer Intern 2009
Duncan, OK
Cell:405-612-0368
Office:580-251-3011

Hectic a.k.a Fun week

2009-06-07T11:26:00.001-07:00

This week been pretty fun. Needless to say, i'm getting my head into my project and started working on it. For the first time, i brought my camera to my work place and took some photos for my presentation and of course for reference in this blog! LOL. Anyway on Wednesday, my colleague who is sitting in the cubicle beside me gave me a huge chunk of cookies which his wife have made. It was so good. The chocolate bites are huge and i have to say, it's comparable to Famous Amos, if not better. Then Thursday went for Wallyball (derived from Volleyball) after work. It is similar to Volleyball except you play in a squash court where you can bounce the ball on the wall. That is why WALLyball. LOL. Pretty fun but it hurts my hand so badly! Bruises everywhere but who cares man! Screw it! :)

Me and "Mountain Mover" aka Sand Truck

Me and the truck with huge Sand Tyre!

See how awesome the Sand Tyres are! lol

Truck that i'll be working with this summer. "Elite"

This is my lunch now. Make it everyday before work to save lots of money!

This is my little cubicle which i work in

Then on Friday, my friend, Justin flew in from Stillwater after work. At first i was figuring that he will be taking a commercial plane where he have a free ticket or something since he is one of the airport's officers. However, when he arrived, i waked my roommate, Tim to pick him up and found out that he actually rented a small plane and flew in to look for me, alone. How cool is that! Tim also managed to drive his car on the airport runway and we had a look at his plane and just check it out. (You can imagine how small this town is when you can drive your car on the airport runway) lol.

Then Tim and I went to Blockbuster to rent some DVD-s because one of my supervisors gave me a gift card of 10 dollars. We, initially planned to just spend that 10 dollars and that's it, but so happen they're having a summer promotion where with 15 dollars you can rent 2 dvd per time and unlimited times within one week which is a good deal since Tim wanted me to watch quite some Classic american movie in order to educate me better on American Culture. LOL. We rented Pink Panther the first series (made in 1964) and Wayne's World which is another classic movie. That night we watched both the movie after Justin flew back to Stillwater that evening. We watch from 10pm to about 2am and by the time we finish them, we're both pretty drunk. Tim treat me with his Vodka entire duration we're watching. I drank about 2-3 big cups of Vodka mixed fruit juice that's pretty good and 3 shots of Vodka (which is about a mouth full of pure Vodka) which knocked me out. Tim of course had much more than that! he's freaking crazy alcoholic! LOL. Just kidding.

Then yesterday we returned the 2 dvd and rented another 2 dvd-s that is The revenge of Pink Panther (1974) and Forest Gump ( which is the same story line by the same writer of Benjamin Button) and went to another store to rent another series or Pink Panther and it only costed 59 cents to rent for a week. We started watching Forest Gump first, once we reached home and Tim started cooking Potato Cabbage Beef, which is an Irish food. It smells so good but we cant eat it because it needs to be stew for 4-5 hours. We started cooking at 3pm and only get to eat it at 9pm!!(6 hours of stewing) It is so suffering having the scent filled the home while not be able to eat it! But when it is done, it was so good! With some Irish Whisky, RedBreast and Pink Panther, it was an awesome dinner cum movie night! By the way, we ended up watching 4 movies just yesterday alone. Forest Gump, Fired Up which we watched online, Revenge of Pink Panther and Return of Pink Panther! How awesome is life.. haha!

This is the Potato Cabbage Beef we had.

Anyway I just came back from church. Joined one of my colleague in Immanuel Baptist Church. Finally i found a church to go to in this place. :) Might be going out to rent another 2 series of Pink Panther since there're 11 series in total. Till then, Adios!

Texas Training

2009-05-30T12:49:00.000-07:00

As was told previously i was to go for a Lean Production training on Thurs and Fri. We came back from work at 2pm on Wednesday (my work schedule was flexible kind of) to get a nap/rest before we went on our journey at 6pm. It was a decent drive without much traffic to Carolltan, Texas. (which is beside Dallas, Irving, Addison) cluster of big cities basically.

We checked into our hotel, Crowne Plaze hotel after dinner and kind of chill and rest to prepare for the long day of training. Surprisingly the training was not as boring as i thought it would be. We got thru the day with 3 other interns at 4pm and Tim wanted to get back to the hotel to finish up his story book ( He has an addiction for his book recently). We wanted to eat in the hotel because it will be charged to the company however later our supervisor in Halliburtton told us to eat out, somewhere good because apparently there's this street called Beltline Road is famous with 160 restaurants located along it, and we can likewise claim from Halliburton. Tim wanted to eat Fish and i have a craving for Steak for some reason and all of the suddenly while driving back to the hotel we saw "Nate's Seafood and Steak" wow! Settle! That's it! LOL.

That's our hotel room..

We went for dinner at 8pm because i need to meet PeyLing, who is my mom's brother's granddaughter. Basically is my cousin's daughter aka my niece? (LOL. Not sure.Too far away in the family tree) at 9pm. I have never met her in maybe 5 years and all of the sudden we're meeting up in U.S since she works in Irving. She's same age with my sister. Anyway, when Tim and I got to Nate's we found out it was so awesome! It's like one part of it is bar with live band playing and the other is non-smokin' dining area. Of course we went to the non-smokin' area. Because our company is paying, we order some expensive food. Tim got a piece of fish (not sure what is it's called) of the size of my palm that cost 23 dollars and i got myself T-bone that costed 26 dollars. The food, needless to say , was so freakin' awesome! It ended up cost me 36 dollars include drink, tax and 4 bucks tips and 38 for Tim cause he gotten himself an extra pudding as desert. When we went to get our car from the jockey ( Yes someone took care of Tim's car when we got here), there're Porsches and Mercedes sports car everywhere, in which we realized we're in a rich ass area.

This is the T-bone that i had. Doesnt it looks awesome!LOL

PeyLing came to pick me up from the hotel at 930 and we went to yogurtland for some good desert. There were so many asians there that i dont feel like i am in U.S at all. That is something good about big city. We dont get as much asians in Oklahoma. It is known as White State and also the fact that there's really nothing much there. We chit chat and catch up with each other and it was pretty funny cause the last time she see me i was still a little kid. It is great to see some relative/family here in U.S :)

This is PeyLing and she looks so kiddy. She's 7 years elder than me!

Yogurt that we had

Training was as usual the next day and we got thru the day at 4 and of course we wont leave the city without having to explore a little. The first place we went was Guitar Store which the other intern told us to go because i wanted to get a guitar. The store was enormous man. First thing that came to my mind is " My brother, Dawson will definitely love this " It is like a heaven for anyone who loves musics! After about 30 minutes, i came off the store with a new guitar. I bought a Beginner pack Guitar that costed 199.99USD with the original price to be 399 USD. I am now pretty broke! lol.

My Mitchell MO-100 SPK

It came with a bag, extra strings, tuner, picks, instructional dvd, and a strap

Then, Tim wanted to go to a place called "Improv" which is a cafe/bar/restaurant which you dine while having a stand up comedian entertaining. Unfortunately, when we got there, show for that night was sold out! Dengit! The counter girl asked us if we wanted to get a ticket for Sunday show because Russell Peters is coming! haha. How cool is that! If you dont know who he is, go Youtube it. He is my favorite comedian of all time. Too bad it is too far a drive for us to get down here. So we went off to a Wine and beer store to get some whisky as Tim is a huge fan of alcohol. He dont drink to get drunk, he just enjoy it so he is not technically an alcoholic. He spend 130 bucks on Whisky cause apparently he got his pay of 212USD on his debit card and wanted to spend all of it. haha..

We then decided to go catch a movie and ironically Studio Movie Grill appeared in front of us. We went there to get tickets for "Night in the Musuem 2" and was told that dinner will be serve in the theater while we watch the movie. How awesome is that. We wont have to worry about dinner then. The movie was awesome! Hilarious but doesnt make as much sense as the first series.

We dine while watch. Never seen somethin like this before..

We took off to Duncan after the movie leaving the big city life behind. To be honest, it feels good when we finally took off back to Duncan. Somehow, Duncan still feels more like home compared to Dallas. No doubt there're 1000 times more entertainment there than in Duncan, i still prefer Duncan to be my work place. It was home sweet home when we finally got home at 12am.

I woke up at 1pm today and has been playing with my guitar since then until Tim asked if I wanted to go for a movie and obviously YES! What else can we do here? lol. We went for "Terminator Salvation" at 4pm and it was pretty good. Not like super awesome but not bad! After that, Tim was like "want another movie? i have nothing to do today" and i goes "Sure man"

We got some burgers from Carl jr's and catch "Drag me to Hell" at 7.10pm. This movie is sooooo freakin' awesome! It definitely beats all that i have watched so far given that i watched 3 movie in 2 days time! LOL. Besides, the main actress was smokin'/blazin'/scorchin' HOT!

I signed up for a privilege card thing and was given 2 free movie tickets and we decided to go for the 3D Movie " UP" on Tuesday because Popcorn and drinks only cost 1 bucks each on Tuesday. :)

Anyway, wanna get back with my guitar practice now with the tutoring dvd that came with the guitar pack. Cant wait to play with my elder brother when i get home SOON.... haha.

Apparently someone named their restaurant after my sister's name. LOL

This is what happens when i found out that Halliburton is paying us 1000USD directly instead of reimbursing us what we spend on housing. We took off all the stereo and huge 42 inches flat screen tv with the support and changed to this little tv putting it on our little supposed-to-be coffee table. :) Our monthly furniture rental dropped from 848 USD to 565 usd. Nice.. Extra pocket money for us. Also those intern in Texas spend 1100 usd per person for housing meaning that they need to use 100 usd from their pay to make up for their housing while we have about 400 bucks to spare for food. Poor thing..

My Halliburton intern T-shirt.

Puzzle! lol

2009-05-25T10:21:00.000-07:00

Out of curiousity n boredom, i took out the puzzle that my friend gave it to me and attempt to assemble it as fast as i can. It took me 6-7 freaking hours to fix it! Dengit!

However, when it is finally done, the sense of fulfillment and achievement made my day!

I documented the process :

Starting..

After 2 hours..

Another 2 hours

This morning!

By the way, today is the last of my 3 days holiday. It is also a public holiday because of memorial day in remembrance of soldiers/veterans who sacrificed for the country, in this case, United States. Didnt had much to do this weekend just chill at home. I will be going to Dallas, Texas on Thursday and Friday for a Lean Production training! Hope it wont be another boring seminar. LOL. The weather's getting hot.... Oh no! Summer!!

Life in Duncan

2009-05-21T18:50:00.001-07:00

Black-Converse Grey-Sketchers

My Employee ID. lol

All my working gadget

Home stereo man..

Living Hall..

My messy room!

My closet..literally a small room man.

My room...again..

This is the LazBoy couch that we got! Awesome stuff..

Summer Project

2009-05-19T12:23:00.000-07:00

After blogging yesterday, the rest of the day was a blast! I am finally back here in my cubicle having the little time to blog about yesterday. By the way, i couldnt get to online in my apartment yet since there's no internet line there.

Yesterday i met with at least 20-30 new people around the manufacturing site. My office is located just beside a warehouse. Not like those freaking run-down kind of office, in fact it is pretty awesome! :)

Because i will be working around the warehouse here, i needed some steel toe shoe. HAlliburton got me a voucher and then asked me to go outside where there's a huge truck selling all the safety shoes. I gave them the voucher and chose any kind of shoes that i want for free ! Next thing i know was the voucher could be used to purchase 2 pairs! Cool... I got myself a Converse and a Sketches. Then i was given a set of ear buds, a cool "Halliburton" hard hat, a pair of gloves and also my employee ID card! haha. I could basicaly access to all the doors here in the Manufacturing Center. :)

Then my manager brought me to meet with Shane which is the PGL (Production Group Leader) of the East Warehouse after meeting with Jason and Ricky who is the PGL for the West warehouse. East warehouse has all the super huge machineries and parts. They have likee 4 auto programming machines that will get the parts needed out from the shelfs which is about 4-5 stories tall. How cool is that!!! Then Brent decided to let me in charge of the M zone of the warehouse. Out of curiousity, i asked why. And then he smiled and he along with Shane brought me to look at M zone.... It is a freaking open air warehouse and it is enormous! It stores all the huge parts of Halliburton's truck like the enginers, pumps and stuffs. Basically all the red stuffs ( you will know why later).. It covers probably 10 to 20 acre of land! hahaha... Spending the summer under the sun man> :P After several debates, they decided to let me in charge of the parts that build the "Elite" truck. The parts may be in some other zones but basically i need to have them somehow compile and labeled somewhere so that they can get it immediately whenever they want! What a challenge! I love it really.

After work, Tim and I went to Walmart to get stuffs for our home. Earlier that day we went to Rent-A-Center which is a store where they will rent you everything from a couch to a bed to playstation. Because we didnt have furniture in our apartment, we rent it from the store. We each rent a bed along with dressing sets, a desk for our room, a nice lazboy couch for our living room, DVD player with home stereo, 30+ inch flat screen TV, and a nice wooden dining table. It costed us 845 USD per month. Not that bad since we'll each have USD 1000 per person/month for accomodation and food. Deducting the rent, we'll still have some money for our food.

Anyway, it was a superbly tiring day yesterday settling down and unpacking everything. Today is a more relaxing day. Tonight will be going to the nearby recreation center for some volleyball with some other cool Halliburton people here. :) I'm gonna get over to my advisor's office now! Take care!
Storage of parts that used to build this truck is now my responsibility! That's all the red stuffs that i am talking about man! By the way, this manufacturing center exports parts to every part of the world. They will be having their parts exported to Malaysia this Thursday! Cool...!

First Day at Work!

2009-05-18T09:06:00.000-07:00

Came to work at 8am today and went to get some paper work done with the HR department. Met with my manager and talked about the projects... get some hard hat, gloves, ear buds...get to know some key leaders around the warehouse...look at my office... sit down....and has since been sitting down here. LOL. Because i cant walk around the warehouse yet until my orientation next week, i wont be having anything to do this few days here. Just get online, talk to people here and just chill i guess... Boring! Arghhh... Just hope i would get something started soon..Just give me anything to do!! lol!

Buffet King

2009-05-17T12:19:00.000-07:00

I woke up at 930am today because there's a complimentary breakfast. When i get prepared and went down, the breakfast already ended! It is from 730 to 930am. What was that man! I didnt know that and when i was there at 945am, it was already empty. Only orange juice. Sigh..
So i came back to my room, read and watch tv and sleep until it was 1pm when i am ready to hunt for lunch. I went over to a chinese restaurant opposite of my hotel and it was closed on SundaY! Then i spotted another chinese buffet restaurant called "Buffet King" !! LOL.

I walked about 5 minutes over there and it was packed with people! When i walked in, the chinese people there spoke english with me until i heard them speaking chinese, then i started talking to them in chinese! The weird thing that i dont feel comfortable with is that they kept looking at me when i eat. Like they found their own people! LOL.

All of the sudden, there's one waitress who came over to my table like 3-4 times and asked where am i from, where am i working, what will i be doing after this 3 months, and the last question was......how old am i? hahahah! What the heck! So funny! Then at the end she asked for my email and cell phone number.. lol. She said just wanna make friends and stuffs.. LOL then she gave me hers as well.

When i was making payment, the guy there talked to me and asked why am i so young and work with Halliburton? He used to see people in the 30-s but not kid of my age working with HalliburtonN! haha. Dont know if that's a compliment or what?? haha.

Anyway, going to have dinner with Halliburton guys later at 6pm and i guess my housemate, Tim will be reaching here pretty soon! Gonna leave this awesome hotel and get back to reality of my job tomorrow. Wont be blogging so soon anymore! haha! Hope i could find the time to blog of my first day at work.. Till then...

KFC

2009-05-16T19:17:00.000-07:00

After sleeping for 4 hours, i went down to buy my dinner. Once i walk down, the first thing i saw was KFC!! It was just right beside my hotel! awesome!LOL. After walking around and look around for 10 minutes, i couldnt resist the smell of KFC anymore and thus bought my dinner there. It was so freaking expensive! Bought a combo meal of 3 pieces of chicken costed 8 dollars man! I took it back to my hotel room and eat it while watching Harry Potter on the TV. :)

KFC here was not as good as in Malaysia's simply because they dont have thai chilli sauce at all! Restaurants here dont normally have chilli sauce. Only ketchups! Where would you eat KFC with ketchups man! It tasted awful. BUt well, i eat it without any sauce so it dont suck that bad! :)

Anyway, my roommate will be reaching here tomorrow. He will be driving from Indiana which is... 3 states away. He already started his journey today morning and will be reaching texas probably by now and will be up here tomorrow. Poor thing drive so far man.

That's the KFC beside my hotel on the right!

Awesome Life... :)

Finally Here

2009-05-16T11:58:00.001-07:00

I am finally at Duncan after months of preparation and excitement! :) Timothy fetched me here and left most of my huge stuffs at the apartment and taken those that i need for this 2 days to the hotel. The hotel was so awesome! I dont know how much it costs but i overheard that it was 160 Dollars for 2 nights. Man.. Halliburton will be paying i guess.. Hopefully. LOL.

Lucky thing the hotel has wireless i could get online then i wont be that bored! There are like 2 tv in the hotel. What the heck! Here's some photos of the hotel anyway..

Cool stuffs right? LOL. Am gonna order some food here for my lunch or probably gonna sleep for a while before exploring this town man. Anyway this town is of roughly 24,000 people and Halliburton support almost half of the population in this town. Besides, this is the place where Erle Halliburton first started the company in 1919! Such a historical place and as it is apparent, the stores here are old!!! OLD!!LOL. Anyway, i am tired man. Till the next post, take care folks!

Lunch

2009-05-15T12:43:00.000-07:00

Given the need to finish all the food before i leave, i had an awesome lunch!

-4 strips of bacons, a fried egg, 2 slices of ham, baked tilapia with koreon bbq sauce, and an awesome bowl of fried rice!

I'm so full now! Awesome life here doing nothing. LOL. Just received my project for my internship and will be soon be working on it. Will be on an all paid trip to Carroltan, Texas on 28th and 29th of May for my company's training.

Anyway, going out soon to buy some stuffs since I HAVE A CAR for today!! :) Go around town and probably catch a movie at the nearby movie theatre later! muahaha.. Life's awesome!

A day with car

2009-05-15T04:43:00.000-07:00

I just got back from fetching my friend to the airport! It is already 645am and the sun already came out! What the heck man! It is already bright at 615am. Signifies that summer is here!! Lol. My friend left me with his car so i will be having his car until tomorrow when i leave for Duncan. Woohoo.. Gonna go around town today man! Make use of it. ahha. Anyway i gotten my breakfast from McD and am ready to go to bed now! Gd Night people! :)

Truck Driver

2009-05-14T01:33:00.000-07:00

On Tuesday, me and 3 of my friends needed to go get our furniture from Yurie's house because we all bought some from her since she will be leaving U.S soon. We rented a truck from U Haul at 2pm and i drove the truck!! It was so awesome man! The truck was V10. Normal sports car has V6 or V8. Meaning it is running on 6 valves or 8 valves. But this freaking truck was running on 10 valves!! It was sooo powerful man! First time in my life i drove a truck and well, guess i will add that to my resume later.. haha!

We shifted the stuffs from Yurie's house to our respectives house and then helped another friend to carry her stuffs to another home. After we're all done with it, my friend decided to ride on the trunk carriage since the truck only fits 3 person in the front. I kinda turn hard on corners on purpose just to play around with him! LOL. Then brake hard and accelerate fast. muahahaha..

That's the guys in front of the awesome truck!

I drove it all the way onto the lawn so that we dont have to carry the furniture that far and was later scolded by the physical plant officer! LOL. Oops!

That's Yu Jun who decided to get at the back and was locked up by us!

10 Valvess!!!

Anyway, i am almost done packing for my internship this saturday. Will be going to Duncan on Saturday but the apartment only will be furnished on Monday afternoon so i will be staying in a hotel for Saturday and Sunday before i get my apartment. Company's paying for the hotel so it sounds good !:)

Will be going out at 3am later to fetch one of my senior to the airport. He will be going back to Malaysia AGAIN!! :( Awww... Sad-nye. I hope i will be able to go back end of this year. We'll see! :) Till then, Adiosss!

Jamming Session!

2009-05-14T00:46:00.000-07:00

Since Eldrick Saw's only sister want me to post more entry and also because i just had one fun activity, i am going to write about it now despite it's already 3am here! LOL.

After working out at Colvin this evening after my previous post, i went to Jonathan's house for dinner. While having my dinner, Courtney called and asked to see if we wanted to go to the church for some jamming (kinda) session which we wanted to do for a long time and Jonathan will be having his flight back to Malaysia tomorrow morning, we decided to shoot for it!

When i got home to prepare to go church, i realized my outer door was blown away by the strong wind! And this is the 3rd time is was blown off. I am sure the Univeristy Apartment Officer will blacklist our apartment prettty soon! LOL.

That's the one! haha!

Our jamming session was awesome! We played so many songs and i learn more beats and gets better with my drumming skill already! (Although still sucky) :( We played for about 3 hours! lol

Some photos were taken! We're such a pathetic group of kids! hahah!

What the heck! I am teaching drum man! haha

Acting Cool while Jonathan's concentrating. I was exhausted!!

We went home at 1am thinking that it is time to sleep but then Jonathan asked Courtney and Mio (another japanese girl) to come over to my house to hang out and have some drinks! They agreed!! They was hungry so i heat up some frozen food for them and we just chill until i saw a card game i just got it from one of my friend. It is "UNO BOMB" game which i used to play while i was in high school! I forgotten how to play the game and it wasnt as fun in the beginning 10 minutes cause we're trying to figure out how the game works. When i finally remembered, it was a blast!! We played sooo many rounds of it. Jonathan needed to pack him luggage but was attracted by the game until he doesnt want to go home until finally at 245am, he reluctantly said he need to go! hahah! Poor little kid! Anyway had a blast with these guys tonight! It was a fun night. Guess the next time hanging out with them will be during the Fall. Another 3 months time. Gonna miss them during the summer man! and also gonna miss the drum. :(

Showing off his muscle..?
LOL. That's me trying to serve my guests at home!

Guess it is time to bath and sleep ! Nudge me and talk to me in msn people! hahaha! :) Nights!

Anyway attached is one moment of us playing the instrument! lol. Enjoy!

School's out!!

2009-05-12T15:45:00.000-07:00

Finally i am done with my finals! It's been a while since i last updated my blog. Life's been so exciting and interesting that i couldnt find any time to blog about it!!!!! :)LOL. Henry (my roommate) went back to Malaysia on Monday and so does most of my friends for freaking 3 months!!!! (roti canai, bakkut teh, cha kuey teow, curry mee, laksa....Oh my..) I will be home alone for the next few days until this saturday where i will be moving to Duncan, Oklahoma for my internship!! Woohoo! Cant wait man!

So my finals went well last week and i had my result out yesterday! I got a 4.0 GPA again this semester. Way to go man! This semester has been the highest average that i had gotten for any subjects. Here's the break down:

(a) Thermodynamics - 95.5% (198/200% for my final exam)
(b) Engineering Economic - 97.4% (150/150 % for my final exam)
(c) Engineering Programming - 95.9% (92% for my final exam)
(d) Intro to Arts - 98% (100% for my final paper)
(e) Intro to Electrical - final average not out yet, only grade.

Anyway, on the monday of finals, Dr Thompson (my mentor) brought 4 of the Halliburton scholars out to a nearby Japanese restaurant which is awesome but expensive thou but Dr Thompson's buying us the meal so.. who cares! LOL.

My Scallop with Fried rice Meal! 17 Dollars! LOL
That little boy is pee-ing on the pool of fire!

That's Dr Thompson trying to catch a piece of Shrimp thrown over by the Chef! Unfortunately, he didnt get it! Awww.. LOL

That's us! :)

Then on the friday after i finish my finals, we had a potluck party with some friends and we invited Dr Thompson once again. One of our Thai friend cooked us Thai Tomyam and it was so awesome! It feels like those in Malaysia Hawker stall but much healthier. After that i went to iHop, one of the few 24 hrs restaurant in Stillwater for some drink with some of my friends and hang out there. After i went home, i watched Family Guy !! OMG! I found myself addicted to Family Guy and also George Lopez movie man! Go check it out! You will definitely laugh off your head. On Saturday morning, i went to my friend's commencement at Gallagher Iba arena where me too will be receiving my graduating certificate in 2 years time! Cant wait for that day! The scene was so cool and fortunately/unfortunately in some sense, we took the furthest but highest spot on the basketball stadium and it was already filled with people. In the afternoon, me and Henry went for lunch with Curt because he will be helping us to move some furnitures from a Japanese girl house to our house (we bought it from her with a low price since she is leaving Stillwater) since he has a truck. Our house feel more like a HOME now with the nice furniture especially the couch that we bought. Furnitures can really transform a house.

This is the place that i am going to have my commencement! :)

Courtney Tang (Taiwan) and I. She's my cute sister in Christ.
Tony from Malaysia and I

Cool Matt and I

On that night, Malaysian Student Society had a Graduation Banquet for those graduating Malaysian at one of the small ballroom. Oh ya!! I was elected to be the money man (treasurer) of MSS for 2009-2010 school year, so as committees, some of us needed to get there early and set up the banquet before guests arrives. Nothing much happens. Everyone just had a great time hanging around and spending time together.

That's Hui Hui with the four who came to OSU in Fall 2008 ( Henry, Vicnesh, Yu Jun, and Me)
Hui Hui helped us to get our apartment and all our procedures done when we were in Malaysia. She was the formet President of International Student Organization. Smart and educated mommy now with her 5 months old baby just born! :)

LOL. My laptop skin...ahha

Bee and I. Bee was the MSS president who helped us a lot in settling down in U.S. Nice girl. Owe her a lot!

Commitee aint suppose to eat!!!! Oopss.

Group photos with all the Malaysian students.

This is KL and I. KL is a super senior here in OSU. See how close are we?? -winks.. cause he is big horse and i am small horse as in the chinese zodiac! So he is exactly 12 years elder than me!! We are both born in the year of horse but 12 years apart!! awesome! haha!

Sunday morning, i went to church early at 930am for the bible study class and then service at 11am. As everyone knows(except and somehow, me) , sunday was Mother's day!! I wished my mom on my friday, which is Malaysia's saturday thinking that it was already Mother's day and my mom say thank you and stuffs! Then, what the heck!! My friend told me it was actually Sunday! So i called and then wished again! hahahah! (MOM, it was actually excuse to just call and talk to you) LOL.

By the way, Curt's cool and awesome parents came to the church that day as well for the service. After church, we went to Texas Roadhouse for lunch. It is another expensive restaurant and again, his dad bought me the meal! LOL. I bought his mom a packet of Almond "Kisses" chocolates and wrote her a card. She said she loves it! haha! Mentioning of "Kisses" chocolates, my students which i tutored frequently this semester bought me a gift on the last tutoring session. They bought me some "kisses" chocolates, a Sonic Dining Gift Card, and a crossword puzzle exercise! Crap! Cause one of my students love to play with crossword puzzle and i never get to solve one yet!! So, they bought me a book fill of crossword so that i could practice it over the summer!!!! (HOW THOUGHTFUL...) hahhaa!

This is it. My buddy for the summer.

For Curt's mom!.

That night, MSS had a committee dinner at Kyoto ( another japanese restaurant) and it costed me 16dollars! What the heck!! Lol!

After that Sunday, nothing much happens. Been watching a lot of Family Guy online, packing, work out, clean up and stuffs all ALONE AT HOME!! Crap! I'm bored! So.. if you see me on msn or facebook, nudge me or talk to me before i am covered with dusts! :)

Anyway it is steaming out there with the sun blazing at us!! I am out to get some sun man! Till then, take care!

Finals Coming!

2009-04-25T14:03:00.000-07:00

Yup! The time of the year when college students are preparing for finals! Woohoo.. lol

Been busy the past week trying to wrap up all the final homeworks and tests! So it is kind of a relief for this weekend and just chilling around with friends on Friday and went for some community service this morning (saturday)..

There were suppose to be 12 of us but ended up only 9 person from our group showed up! And... i was the only guy with 8 girls!!!! haha. Good side is : i have all the girls for the few hours at least but the bad side is: i needa do all the work that a guy suppose to do..

We went to our first assignment destination to clean up the yard of a 80 years old lady who stayed alone. Unfortunately, we didnt get to meet her in person. She probably has gone out when we went there. So we just scrap the leaves and cut the hedges. Bet she'll be really happy to see it when she's back! haha..

Then we splitted into 2 groups of 4 and 5 into the second assignment and i was paired with... well... with another 3 girls...! But they're all cool :) We went to a medical office and clean up the landscape and stuffs. Dont understand why he needs us to do it since he own the entire office he probably could hire people to do it! So our purpose of helping disabled or old people is defeated!

Anyway we are done by 1pm and i was freaking tired! (cause i did things that are supposed to be done by a few guys...? ) LOL and to make it worst i didnt had breakast before i went! Almost fainted a few steps before i reach for the free pizza that was provided! :P

My small group for the community service today..

Went out hang out with my friend for couple of hours after i got done with the job and lie down straight on the bed! like a dead fish! At 6 pm, Malaysia Student Society president called and ask us to get prepared, she's coming to fetch us for BBQ at one of our friend's house! Deng it! The BBQ session was fun thou! Had lots of food and really enjoyed it!

That was me behind! haha
The son of one of our senior here. Cute little one..

This is us preparing the food.

The weather these days been pretty awesome! It was like 97 F (34 C) on Thursday without wind! It definately feels like Malaysia except that you wouldnt sweat as much cause it is dry heat here. Next week will be study week before final exam. I'll be having 5 finals this time and i 'll be so dead! Hope i could live through it and make good grades!

Anyway, my brother in law just bought my sis a mercedes benz ( C or E class)! She's like so happy now cause she's been walking to work for the past few months before she got the car. Pity her! But well, at least you get to drive big car now!! hehehe. Happy for ya sis!

For my younger bro! He just got his new nickname that he used in his college that is..... Felix! Wooot! hahahaha..Felix Saw! Pretty cool name huh? and also he obtained full scholarship including text book to study A level in a college somewhere...in ....KL? lol. Ooops!

While my elder bro is enjoying his work as a doctor now because his senior really treat him very well unlike the previous department that he was posted to. Happy for you bro! We're all so blessed to have these things that we never deserve to have! :0 Love you guys lots!

And for my parents and grandma, they're living a happy and stress-free life back in Malaysia. Mom had a facebook account!! Hope she doesnt stalk on me all the time on facebook! haha. As for my dad, he had a msn account where he can chat with me online or webcam sometimes! hehehe. Getting more "IN" as in "trendy" already my parents!

Anyway, hope i'll have some interesting story to talk about and some cool photos to post on my blog sometime soon... probably after my finals! All the best to everyone who's having their finals! God bless people! -Peace out-

Pissed!

2009-04-21T19:30:00.000-07:00

I am so disgusted by someone's act and lies! urrrghhhhh!! Screw it!!

Friday Night Fever

2009-04-17T23:43:00.000-07:00

It is again, FRIDAY! I had my induction ceremony today into Tau Sigma Honor Society. It is an honor society for students who transfered from other college/university and obtained a 3.50 GPA and above on their first semester. There really nothing so special about this until i saw one of my golfing buddy,(i think i blog about him before cause he is the one who first brought me to Lakeside Golf Club and i taught him to play golf when i first came to US!) Justin to be the keynote speaker for the day!!! I was so excited to see him there. Normally i see him so casually but today he is all dressed up!! And guess what...? His resume, when being introduced by the Coordinator of Tau Sigma shocked me!

Here it goes:
Former student council of OSU
Youngest ever city council
Featured in one of the famous movie
Professional Saxophone player
One of Obama's campaign helper ( as in like coordinator)
He is currently writing a book
etc etc etc i just dont remember everything!!

I was stunned when i heard it. He is so so humble all the time and i didnt know he is such an important person in OSU! MAN...

Anyway, was glad and proud of him man. His speech was so inspirational too! I was aspired by his speech seriously!

Prapta, who's one of Halliburton's scholar as well. He's from Indonesia!

Justin and I !

Berlagak je..LOL

hahahah
Us doing the pistol Pete (our school mascot) sign!

So, didnt did much after that ceremony. Was just chilling at home. Was suppose to go to church today but didnt do so cause was so lazy and tired. So i texted a couple of my friend and asked if they wanted to go for dinner and one of my groupmate/buddy called me to go chill at his house and for some food. He always complained that i never had spend time chilling with him other than lunch after class every Monday and Friday! LOL. So he took me to his house at 7pm and his house was great! He has another 3 roommates which i knew too. We went skate boarding (this is my first time) on his long board. It is slighty longer than the normal skate board and it is much smoother than a skate board. Then, we slacklined. Then had some bbq-ed hotdogs and just chill at his house. Playing some guitar and drum. Then, 2 of his friend needed to go get something so they left and the house was left with me, Jacob (my buddy/groupmate) and Chris (Jacob's housemate) and we decided to JAM!!! Me on the drum, and both of them on the electric guitar! We closed the door and jamed for like an hour! It was soooo fun! Cant wait to have another jam session with them again. LOL.

Then, we watch the movie Zoolander because it is about KILLING MALAYSIA'S PRIME MINISTER! What the heck!! It was sooo funny and at the same time insulting at some part. haha. BUt still it is fun.

Then befor going back we slacklined a little while again and chit chat before Jacob brought me home at 2am! LOL. It was so fun. Cant wait for another session with these guys but finals coming really soon! Another 2 more weeks to go and i am done with school for this semester! Woohoo! Will be resting for 1 week till maybe 16th where i'll be moving to Duncan, Oklahoma to start my internship on the 18th and will be done with work and training on 14th of August . Will be moving back probably on 15th or 16th and Fall semester started right on 17th of August! Isnt it awesome???! (sardonically/sarcastically) lol

Jacob on his Drum before i took over!!! LOL

Chris Jamming! (That's their music room! There're like 4 electric guitars and 3 accoustics, a keyboard, a drum, 2 amplifier....at least that was what i remember)
This is slacklining! I finally get to get up on my own after trying for hours. It's not as easy as it looks really.

Anyway, next week's gonna be a rough week again for me cause will be having some tests and homeworks before dead week(the week before finals). So wish me luck and also All the best to everyone who are having their final exams! Let us ace our exams and do it with all our heart and to Glorify our Lord the God! :)

P/s Miss and love Dad, Mom, bros and sis. Will always keep you guys in my prayer! :)

My Easter Day!

2009-04-12T20:38:00.000-07:00

As was said previously, i will be going to Curt's parents house for lunch for Easter! So, we went to church early today for the 8.30 am service and when we arrive, it was already packed with people. Praise the Lord. There're special performance by the choir team which was really awesome. Good music and singers.

Then Curt needed to teach Sunday school so i followed him to teach some 3rd grader i guess? (roughly 8-12 years old) Some really made an impression on me with their superb mature thinking about Jesus and bible while there are some who plays around and disturb the other kids. But they're all soooo adorable!

At around 11am , we finally got ready to head to a small town near Tulsa named Jenks (pronounced as Jings) where Curt family basically lives there.

When we reach, he showed me the house that his parents are building now. (yes, they did, literally build the house themselve. Unless it requires huge machineries, his dad will just do it on himselve which i think is so cool.)

It was build on a 2.5 acre of land! Could you imagine that? Seeing is believing... So,

Mansion in the progress..

Curt's 6 footer and look how small he is comparison to the house... urm... living room to be precise.

We're right on top of the house! it was pretty creepy looking down directly. Definately not for people who cant stand height! :P

Then, we went to his Grandparents place (another huge and nice house) to have our lunch along with all his relatives. His grandpa (called "pa pa") and grandma (called "mi mi") are so friendly and nice and caring and loving. I called them just like how their family called them! haha. Oh ya, btw their family are all sooooo huge! Like everyone of them are at least 6 footer except the ladies.. The meal was so delicious (make me drool whenever i think of it) but didnt manage to take any pictures cause didnt want to embarass myself and Curt! haha.

The entrance to his grandparent's house

The house from the side view

The modified engine of Curt's racing car which he used to use for drag racing when he was in high school. Pretty neat stuff here.. LOL

After the meal, we chit chat, watch tv (the Masters Golf) and just hang around. It was really a great time spend with them. I felt so homely when i was with them. The caring-ness and loving-ness of them made me miss my family so much... Awwww...

Then at 3pm we decided to leave "Pa Pa" and "Mi Mi" place and get over to his dad's working garage to get some stuffs and head back to Stillwater.This is "pa pa" and "Mi mi" right before i left their home! "Pa Pa" trying to act cool! :) They're so loving and nice... Missing them now.. LOL

Curt's dad is a genius! He owns a plane, he has his own business, he builds houses on his own and stuffs. He basically can build anything that he wants from what he has in the garage! And the best part was, he loves hunting. The garage that he has have all the animals that he ever hunted hanging on the walls. Gooose, 6 ft long fish, wild Pig, deers etc etc etc. Didnt manage to get a photo of it thou :(

Yup! It's a real shot gun! It's heavy man! With the Oklahoma Cowboy hat taken in the garage.. Wooot! :)

Cool boat just behind of the garage.

Because of his father, Curt's brother , Matt has his own shot gun when he was....a kid? Not sure how old but he started hunting when he was 10?? or younger! LOL.

Well, they re a pretty special/interesting family. I enjoyed going around and look at all the weird stuffs / cool stuffs that they does!! It was superb!

After hanging around at the garage for some time , Curt and i decided to take a move from his home and go have a mini tour around the town before we head home. We came to his high school and saw a huge football stadium (American high school has gym, swimming pools, stadium at the least) and believe it or not, it was named after his Grandpa! !! Isnt that cool? Because his grandpa has been serving the community for over 30 years and been the principal of the high school for a long duration. It is amazing man!!

After the tour, we head right out to the highway and headed home. It was raining the entire day since saturday night and it is a little chilly out there right now.

Taken right before we left the garage with Curt's Dad and Mom! He's a Huge man and they're such a nice and beautiful couple.

What a wonderful and fruitful trip. Thanks to Curt and his wonderful family... :)

Happy Easter to everybody!

Easter Day!!

2009-04-11T23:41:00.001-07:00

So the screw-it week was finally over and i get to have one week of "honeymoon" week! woohoo..
And this weekend is a really special and meaningful weekend. It is Easter weekend! Friday was called "Good Friday" which signifies the crucification (as in hanging on the cross) of Jesus Christ! He died on the cross for the sins of all His creation and risen on the third day. The Father in heaven sends him to cleanse our sins and to forgive us and gave us the oppurtunity to receive Him in our life.

John 3:16
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Everyone in this world have the right to receive him. It is a gift from God to us, to receive salvation. He is there to help us and guide us. He is there to lift up our burden and listen to us. He is our Lord the God who is forever living.

There are 3 loves that we will have in our life. But none of these are greater than God's love.

(1) Parents love - No doubt that parents are the greatest living being in the world that care and loves us with all their heart. But no matter how much they loves us, there is always a day when they have to leave us. Parents love are not eternal.

(2)Love of a spouse - When God created Adam, He made Eve from the bones and fleshes of Adam. That is why there is "men" in "Women" LOL. When a men and women unites, they become one. However, love is patient, love is kind. How many broken relationships has we ever witnesses in our life. Divorces are heard everywhere. Of course, God ask us to love our spouse and to honor God with their relationship. But the point is, it is hard to predict the love of a spouse! LOL

(3) Friends love - Of course friends are a essential part of a person's life. However, friends come and go. Good friend stays with you through hard times while not-so-good friend will not. They wont be there when you need them unless you have something to offer them. That is how this world ( at least majority) has become. Even a good friend wont have eternal life to love you and be with you forever.

God's love is eternal, patient. No doubt that God has wrath. It is because He loves us just like how our parents scold us when we do something wrong. The worst thing to happen is not when God wrath but when God abandon us.

Micah 7:18
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity And passes over the rebellious act of the remnant of His possession? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in unchanging love.

Tomorrow is Easter Day. The day when God resurrected from the dead. When he says that He can destroy the temple and build it in 3 days, He actually meant He himself. Amen! God has risen and He is back with the Father in the kingdom of heaven!! Wooohoo! Let us rejoice and have faith in HIm. When we confront Him one day, let Him praises us for being a faithful servant of His. That is the best thing that could ever happen! Amen to the Lord!

When Jesus was put on the cross, there are two other criminals who were hung beside Him. One of them defy Jesus while another, shown faith in Jesus. Because he trust Jesus , even when Jesus was hung on the cross shows how much faith he has for Jesus and therefore, at that moment, HE WAS SAVED!

Luke 23:41-43
23:41 And we rightly so, for we are getting what we deserve for what we did, but this man has done nothing wrong.” 23:42 Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come in your kingdom.” 23:43 And Jesus said to him, “I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.”

Another Screw-it week

2009-04-05T17:49:00.000-07:00

Honey moon week is over and it is time to get right back to reality! This week features these patient testing-evil-bastard-screw it- dumbass- tasks to me :

(1) Thermodynamics HW #11
(2) Arts Paper (on Renaissance Period)
(3) Programming HW #6 (this is the worst HW ever!!! )
(4) Engineering Economic Midterm 2
(5)CEAT Student Council Meeting
(6)6 hours of tutoring
(7) Thermodynamics Test 3
(8) Circuit HW #10

Well, i wont forget to have fun while in school but then, how much time do i have left for FUN...? :(

Looking forward to next week's Easter Day where i will be going over to Curt's parents house to have all the great food! :) Awesome! At least that's something to look forward to.

Everyone out there, have a great week ahead and enjoy your life while you can! When you are down, turn to God and He will always be there for you. :)

MalaysiA Boleh!

2009-03-29T01:14:00.001-07:00

Although we didnt win, our dance team had put in all we can and give our best!! We lost to NEPAL! wtf! Lost by just a little point and yes, we got 2nd, technically! :( -small group competition

However, the Malaysia 24 Season Drums in OSU won!! Kicking all the other group's ass ! They deserve to win since they have been preparing for this night for the pass 2-3 months! It was a great performance! - large group competition

Well, end of the day is the spirit that counts and i am sure we're not any lacking in it !

MALAYSIA BOLEH!!! :)

Cultural night

2009-03-27T20:06:00.000-07:00

Yes my week is almost over and cultural night performance was a blast! We were actually worried at first because we kind of needed to change some dance move to perfect it but couldnt find the time to do so since i will be having my golf tournament today ! And you know what? Forecast said that it's going to rain and snow tonight and tomorrow! Of course then the golf tournament was canceled!
So, we have like 5 hours to practice prior to the performance and we totally ACE IT!! Woot!
Everyone shout and claps when we finish. Malaysians are awesome man! LOL

Took lots of pictures of course but tomorrow will be the finale night where we will be performing once again! Wish me luck and ace it once again! :)

By the way, isnt it suppose to be SPRING? Why is it snowing outside? LOL

Branson Missouri

2009-03-19T22:42:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow is the day i will be out from Oklahoma finally for this spring break! It is sad thou that spring break is almost over but then i have at least the last 3 days to play till i fall!!

Branson, Missouri is an entertainment city with lots of famous shows and it is one famous tourist attraction in United States.
This is the link for you to have a sneak peek for the fun i soon will be having! :)
http://www.branson.com/

Anyway, i have been busy these days practicing dance for the cultural night and finishing up my homework for next week !

Btw, went for golf at Lakeside Golf Club today and played 16 holes ( cant finish cause it's dark) with Jonathan. Took lots of awesome photos!! :) Jonathan and I looks so dumb taking photos of literally every shot that we hit! Wonder what's on American's mind when they see these Asians kid... :P

I am done packing for my trip tomorrow and am ready to rock my world for the weekend! :) Woohoo!

New Trick!

2009-03-17T20:26:00.000-07:00

Picnic

2009-03-17T19:34:00.001-07:00

Had a picnic today, on St. Patrick's day due to the Malaysia-ish weather here. It was about 25-30 degree C today and it totally felt like Malaysia except for the fact that it is so dry here.
Few of us headed to Boomer's Lake for a picnic and some Frisbee at 3pm when the sun is right out there shinning at us!!! :) Wooot! :P
Took some pictures then my camera ran out of battery.. LOL

Then later more people came to joined us and we only leave the place at 8pm when it is total darkness! It's a relaxing and fun day out there but ... Spring break is using up soon.. :(

Visual blog..

2009-03-16T14:21:00.000-07:00

Cute little baby got bullied by me? LOL. She's a mix of American girl and Chinese guy!

My birthday celebration with these guys.. Thanks Buddies!:)

I was so desperate to hit golf balls outdoor that me and my friend found a huge empty field and hit to and forth just for the sake of satisfying our addiction to golf.

Melting of the ice on a tree

Taken during the winter storm that caused school to be canceled for 3 days during CNY.

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Pot Luck in Jason's place 2 days ago with TakeShi, Takahiro, Nan (Thai girl) , Jason, Henry and Ben! That girl in the picture is 26 years old! Dang! i just found out yesterday. She doesnt looks that old at all man!

>> Egg scramble with tomato made by me (thou it doesnt looks appealing) LOL

> > Thai Style Tomyam?

Dessert King!

Made us an extremely nice cheese cake.

The scene of snowing as i walked to class.

My parachuet during junior girl scout day! (as a volunteer, not participant Please LOL)

My last group of girl scout

Natalie, the girl that i worked with. ( the center one) along with the 2 girl scouts.

Golfing last week in Cimmaron Trails.

This photo was taken randomly by my friend with a USD 2000 camera. Nice shot :)

My Brunch today!

SPRING BREAK!

2009-03-16T01:46:00.000-07:00

Yup! So here comes the spring break! Didnt get to update my blog for the past weeks because i was pretty busy with my work and yeah i started my tutoring: Dynamics, Statics, and Strength of Material. Not all that tough subjects actually, dont get scare by their engineering-ish name. :)

Wanted to update my blog 2 days ago which is friday the 13th LOL but went to my friend's house , Joel and Curt if you guys still remember about them who i created a chinese name for each of them, for some fellowship and bible studying until 2am? :) It was fruitful and i was so blessed to have them as my buddies.

Then on saturday, i woke up at 2pm for the first time in my life and went for dance practice..
-Drums rOLLL...-

Yup. I am dancing a.k.a performing for the cultural night which will be on the friday after this week's. Dang! I just wanted to contribute to Malaysian Student Society but didnt know i needed to dance. It will be a combination of malay, chinese and indian dance and it will be a 3 minutes performance. I know i can do it... ( ahaahaha. unfortunate for the audiences)

Then at night, i went to Jason's place for pot luck ! It was so darn good man the foods. Pictures going to be up sooN!! :) Only manage to get home at 3 am and slept directly as i have church that morning. Went to church in a zombie-ness mood but manage to survive it and went home at 2pm ! Slept straight until 6pm before i went to Colvin Recreation Center for some golfing. (Newtricks done again.. videos soon) :)

Then pot luck once again at Jason's place at 11pm. Yes dinner at 11pm then has since stuck here dota-ing and timecrisis3-ing until now!! FYI, it is 4am now! Home is not something that is near in sight thou.

Anyway, Stillwater (my town) is really so darn STILL now cause most of the students are home/vacations so there are hardly any vehicles/people around other than internationals. It's a total-ness dead town now. American loves to have fun and their parents normally pay for it. For example, one of my friend is going to Florida, all paid trip by his friend's parents. That's one thing about American parents, they love their children (majority of them) a lot and this caused many of the children to rebel because they always want it their way. It is the way they grew up here.

So, Missouri this friday ! Woohoo..
then the week after that will be the hectic-ess week of my life. One test, 8 hours of tutoring, classes, 4 homeworks, 4 days of dance rehearsal, golf tournament, 2 days of performance and 2 days of volunteering work for few hours each day. On that particular friday, i have class from 1030am to 1130am. Test from 1130 to 1230. I have golf tournament at 1pm (tee off time) so needa rush to the golf course straight. Then at 6pm will be having the cultural night performance. Dead piece of s**t man!

I want a camera! A good camera so that i could shoot good photos to be posted. My current camera so noob man! Gotta work harder now! Tutor more people!! Hope that more people find difficulties in their studies then they'll request for tutor then i earn more money! Wooot! :) (evil laugh)
Talking about studies, my younger bro, Chia Hui, gotten 9As and 2 Bs in his spm! Cool huh? Congrats to him, little bro! You did great! but gotten a B3 for physics! Dont tell others that ... i ever tutor you in physics ah! LOL!!

Anyway, time to go home now ( surprisingly) ! Nights!

TGIF

2009-03-06T21:32:00.000-08:00

Thank God it's Friday!! :)
After two weeks of busy-ness, i finally get to catch some breath and release my stress! It's been a hectic 2 weeks and it's really awful but well, it's over now..i guess.
So after my Thermodynamics test 2 today, i felt a sense of accomplishment as i have prepared for this test for the past week and am so relief when i thought i did pretty well on it.
So i went golfing with 1 of my buddies, Michael and his friend in Cimmarron Trails not far away (photos on next week, lazy now (LOL) ) from where i am staying. It was fun playing but, dont ask what's my score cause it's not the main thing, the main thing is... i had fun! hahah :)
Oh ya, before the golfing i was met up with one of my church friends and we talked a lot about the biblical sense of speaking in tongue (in christianity) and also took some awesome photos of the campus cause i 'm planning on writing about Oklahoma State University to attract more students here! So that we can rip those Americans apart LOL (kiddin pls)
Then i get to catch some rest after the golf not long before i went out for dinner with Joel, another church friend of mine. We went to NEW CHINA chinese buffet restaurant so it was really cool. After that, i invited him over to study the bible together and we really had a fruitful time together studying God's word. So praise the Lord! Great stuff there!
We spend like more than 4 hours together when we finally felt so darnnnnn tired! lol and now i'm blogging!
Anyway, a little updates is that i'll be helping out with the Junior Girl Scout Day tomorrow to show those girls how to construct some engineering stuffs (catapult, in my case) ! and they're only 11 to 12 years old girls so... dont think too much folks! lol
And i started tutoring this week with Dynamics and Statics. Now only realize money hard to earn. Sigh..
Will be having my spring break after next week for 9 days so at least get a break for a little and will be going to Missouri for 3 days with along with a chinese church friends. We're spending one whole day in Silver Dollar City (if you wanna google it) it is like a mini Disneyland! Woohoo! It's going to be fun.. So basically that's all about me (what a boring blog) and have fun people and Happy 21st Birthday to Jermaine sis!

Have a blessed weekend!

By the way, what do you call people who can speak 3 languages??

-Tri-lingual

So, what do you call people who can speak 2 languages??

-urm.... Bi-lingual

Now, the tough one. What do you call people who speak one language???

-wow!.... Urm.. Mono-lingual?

Well, it's AMERICANS...

Hahah lame! I'm sorry... Nights!

My Birthday Gift

2009-02-26T00:28:00.000-08:00

Yeah! So it's 2/26/09 and i'm officially 19 years old. Wow! Sounds young.. lol.
It's 2 am here and i bought myself a birthday Gift online.~~ 1 year subscription of Reader Digest! Woohoo! My favorite magazine of all time. and it cost only....

Order date:
2/26/2009
Order confirmation number:
1490114
Order total:
$19.98$19.98 charged to Visa # 4*** **** **** 4213

Thats right! Less than 2 bucks per issue! Good price!
So guess it's time to sleep now and back to the usual chore of my life later...Thanks to myself for that present.. haha!

Nights!

Tiger Woods is coming BACK!

2009-02-21T18:21:00.001-08:00

That's is right! After more than 250 days being absence from tour, Tiger has announced on Thursday that he is ready to play again. In the duration that he is away from Golf, his wife, Elin has gave birth to yet another child, a boy this time named Charlie. He will be playing the Accenture World Match Play on Wednesday (2/25), one day before... 2/26 which is... ahem! So.. really looking forward to what he can bring to us and see the creation of a supersonic Golf player. Below are 2 interesting clip of Tiger's return!

Want to show you guys some other cool trick that only "TIGER" can do it! Here it goes...

Valentine's Dance Party

2009-02-14T21:47:00.000-08:00

So it was 10pm, 2 hours before Valentine's gonna be over and my buddy, Ford Savage called me to hang out with him and his friends! I was reluctant to go at first because of my tons of homeworks but then he assure me that he will get me home as soon as possible!

So i went out with him to Kathy's House and they're having a little dance party! Like 10 of them dancing on the floor and i joined them! It was a BLAST!!! Had so much fun with them and they're really really cool! These guys really rock the floor and Ford keep asking if i need to go home. After a second thought, it is too fun to leave so early and we hang out till 1130pm before all are tired and need to take a leave!

So , i guess it is a pretty fruitful and fun Valentine's party and met a lot of great friends and had good time with my buddies!

Happy Valentine's day to everyone before it strikes 12 and to singles... Enjoy your freedom! Single's a blessing from God..! :)

Lovess..

Tornado WARNING!

2009-02-10T14:09:00.000-08:00

So.. i'm stuck at the basement of Spears school of Business because of the TORNADO WARNING here! Bad storm / tornado struck Oklahoma and some other states around here causing siren to be sounded and everyone were required to take shelter in the basement! Buildings were destroyed in some part of the state now.

Imagine, wind that gusts up to 150 mph and hail that is at least baseball size hitting Oklahoma. Imagine the damages that it caused now! Well, hopefully nobody will get hurt from this storm but fast precaution were taken by authorities which is pretty cool!!

All classes are canceled again for the rest of the day obviously! but make no difference for me since i already finish mine.

By the way, BN took over Perak ?? wtf man! Malaysia Boleh!! Bravo to Altantuya's killer who get away after C4-ing someone! Screw Malaysia...

OSU campus is still closed for Wednesday!

2009-01-27T20:46:00.000-08:00

That's 5 days of holiday straight! American rocks! Chinese New Year Rocks! Americans know that we need to celebrate CNY and so they give us so many days of holiday! Wooohooo!
Thick snow coated outside and everything from the tree to the grasses has freezed!
They will continue to monitor the weather and determine the schedule on thursday ONCE AGAIN! hahaha! Great stuffs here man! Chillll..........

OSU Campus Remained Close on Tuesday

2009-01-27T10:35:00.001-08:00

WTF???!!! Gooood stuffs... Hibernation time! Chiaoz!

Looks like a good year ahead!

2009-01-26T13:37:00.001-08:00

OSU campus officially closed for the rest of the day at 2.00pm due to feezing temperature! What a "good" first day of CNY and as if the sky knew that we should take a break to welcome the new year! So all classes are canceled!

What a scene to see people walk around and fell down! hahaa.. sounds evil but it's a pretty scene ! lol... the bus that i rode in was stuck on a slope cause the road is coated with ice and the bus just could not move! It just skates on the road! haha. Lucky my house was just few steps away and i Skated home! lol

Looks like it's gonna be a really wonderful year ahead of us all! Good luck people! :) lol

Reunion Dinner

2009-01-25T20:36:00.000-08:00

So tomorrow is the first day of Chinese New Year and i got up early (1130am) get ready to clean up our house to welcome the year of OX! Well, it's been a long time since we last have a major clean up for our home!

So this is the new look of our home! This is my room..

where all the cooking is done

Later then, i invited 4 of my friends for dinner at my home! This is the first time i will be having my reunion dinner away from home so i figure it is good to have all the close friends over to celebrate it together! However, i volunteered to do the cooking!

Cooking is really an art that is without boundary of creativity! I found out i have fallen in love with cooking especially when someone appreciate and loves the dish that you prepare! Yes i know, it's Lame and girl-ish that i love cooking but who give a damn!

Prepared these dishes for 4 hours and it is really a tiring processsss..... Photos says better than words here are them: Steam Eggs with 3 different Mushrooms..( 1 hour time)

Abalone and herbal chicken soup... (3 hours time)

Fried Tillapia with teriyaki (1 hour)

"Siu Bak Choi" with mushrooms and rice wine (30 minutes)

Finally done!! :) Peacee...

These guys took only 30 minutes to finish everything! Damn! lol Tosss ! Yee Sang!

Wooo Hoo!

So it's been a pretty fun time and well spend reunion dinner although no poker card around here and families away. But no regrets spending these time to prepare the dinner cause there's self satisfaction filling me! haha :)

Anyway Gong Xi Fa Cai to everyone and may the year of OX brings you abundant joy, health and wealth!

Huggies to my families...! :)

Chinese New Year Celebration

2009-01-23T19:52:00.000-08:00

I just had an early Chinese New Year celebration in my Chinese Church with few of my buddies! When i got there, first thing on hand is to make DUMPLINGS!! I have eaten a lot of dumplings before, but to actually make it myself??! Oh NO! I'm sure you dont want to have a look at any of those i have made so.... i decided to not take any photos of them!! Muahahaha.... :)

Then we had a great dinner with lots of food prepared by the church. It was great!

Can you spot the ugliest one? :P

I had 2 American buddies who actually came with me too cause they wanted to experience the chinese new year celebration and upon entrance we're given a name tag where we needed to write our name on it! Of course i wrote mine down in chinese and both of them wrote their name in english obviously but then, later i thought, how can they blend in with us if they dont have a chinese name? So... this is what they get!

Pretty accurate huh? :)

and this is mine!! :)

For sure they liked their name! It's a pretty nice drawing to them... lol

Then, we had a short chinese service in which my two friend doesnt understand a word but they got a translator upstairs who translate every single word and then transmit it through FM and they heard it with a receiever or a radio! Cool stuufs huh..?

Thats Curt who is looking over listening to the translator.

Then at the end of the service, the elders were invited out to give angpou to the younger ones. It was initially only for all the little kiddie who is under 15 years old. But then later they have some extras and they extend it to under 18. Nobody went out. Under 20.. Yahoo! I got it i got it!! hahaha.. i'm the only one who is in college and still under 20! Man.. little kiddie i am... But who caresss! I got an angpou! Yeah!!! :)

Then under 21, under 22, under 23 and all my friends manage to get it! yahoo! It is a half dollar coin which has stop production long time ago. I have never seen such a coin as far as i am concern and according to my buddy, they're worth some money cause it's pretty precious and old type of coin! Cooooool....

Jon, me, Joel, Curt
Cute little kiddie with another Kiddie behind! lol

Curt with kiddies..

and after that we manage to catch some "Nian Gao" before we leave the church! It's pretty fun there and especially without family around here, friends makes a difference..

So.. It's Chinese New Year and this is going to be the first time i am celebrating it without any of my family members around with me! It's sad to think about the reunion dinner that we use to have at home or the vacation that we used to go for during this time of the year with all my family members. Playing Poker, Blackjack, Drinking and gaining weight and most importantly having a laugh on every single thing because it is just so great to be with them!

When the good food that i have here appear, the images of my family is blinking in my mind. How i wish they could somehow be here to celebrate with me and to share my joy, sorrow and everything with me.

However as what my friend once said to me: Far in place, near in heart! That's what really matters!

It is sad to think of some people who always have their family members around them and take it for granted! They always thought that freedom is what they strive for. Until one day, when they regreted it, it's too late! Never only appreciate something after it is gone. You will never know it will be gone so NEVER TAKE THEM FOR GRANTED!

Anyway, to welcome the new year Henry and i will be cleaning up our house and put up some New year decoration around the home to make up for the lost atmosphere here!

Nothing much here after that.. Just some gathering with friends and back to school. Pretty sad case huh... Well, i never thought it's so tough to be away from home...Now i know.... lol

So... Happy Chinese New Year everyone! and to my family : Love you all lots! :)

Obama Inauguration

2009-01-20T07:54:00.000-08:00

When Rev. Martin Luther King gave his speech "I have a dream" decades ago, he has envisioned American to look pass the skin color and unite as one. He said " i have a dream that all American will come together", and that day is now here.

2 million people from all over the nations and even other countries flew in to the capitol of United States, Washington D.C. in the chilly weather just to catch a glimpse of President-elect Obama taking the oath knowing very well that they might not even have the chance to see him in person for a fraction of seconds. To be part of the historical moment is what their main goal is. To storied it to the next generation of this monumental event is the thing tinkering in the minds of millions.

"The change has come" was indeed a pleasant quote by Obama and it brings hope to the nations that more prosperity will come given the plunging economy that the US is facing.

The people of America, like it or not, will now trust the administration of Obama at this much needed moment. Obama administration will be more active in catering to the needs of American leaving the Republican / Bush administration in the back of the mind.

This historical moment was redeemed by the heroes of America with their bloods and soul and now being changed to the tears of millions. United States has come such a long way in getting every folks together and i believe the nations has more to be proved to the world.

Will Obama administration bring 4 or 8 years of prosperity? or will his administration be much of the Bush administration has yet to be seen.

What American can be sure now is that "Change has come"

Amazing Grace

2009-01-18T12:15:00.000-08:00

Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)"

Amazing grace How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me

I once was lost, but now I'm found Was blind, but now I see'

Twas grace that taught my heart to fear And grace my fears relieved

How precious did that grace appear The hour I first believed

My chains are gone I've been set free My God, my Savior has ransomed me

And like a flood His mercy rains Unending love,

Amazing grace The Lord has promised good to me

His word my hope secures He will my shield and portion be

As long as life endures The earth shall soon dissolve like snow

The sun forbear to shine But God, Who called me here below

Will be forever mine Will be forever mine You are forever mine

Just another day

2009-01-17T12:25:00.000-08:00

A string of spears went through my heart...
A strong flame burn through my soul...
A bad hit felt on my head....

The old feelings of uneasiness revived in me!
That same feeling which flooded me years ago!
Never thought that it would be here again.

It's just another day.
One of those days...

Carry on.. March on... cause it's time to MOVE On...

Thought for the day

2009-01-16T14:53:00.000-08:00

He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool, shun him;
He who knows not and knows that he knows not is uneducated, teach him;
He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep, awaken him; but - -
He who knows and knows that he knows is wise, follow him. - - Steven R.Mamchak

Fall out Boys

2009-01-16T13:22:00.000-08:00

Suddenly fell in love with this song - America's Suiteheart by Fall Out Boys

Reviving post :P

2009-01-16T12:52:00.000-08:00

After such a long period of time, it seems like my blog has been abandoned and so! i'm here again to revive it!

First of all, Happy thanksgiving, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone! It's 2009 and we have left 2008 a wonderful memory behind but strive to create a better one this year.

Some updates about myself since the last time i ever talked about myself! lol.
(1) I survived the 6 subjects semester and will never do it again!
(2) I got back to Malaysia right after my finals and got back to US on the first day of class ( Will not be back in Malaysia again for the entire 2009 for sure )
(3) My sister gotten married FINALLY! :p and it was a blast! Check the photos out on my facebook!
(4) Stuffed myself with Dim Sum, Roti Canai, Sushi-s, Bak Kut Teh.....
(5) Enlisted in the President's Honor Roll cause gotten a 4.0 GPA last semester
(6) Gotten an internship with Halliburton for summer 2009 from 18th of May to 7th of Aug with a starting salary of USD 16.00. Wooohooo! ;)
(7) Gotten the oppurtunity to be a tutor and earn some money on campus! :)
(8) Feeling so lazy this semester because of the winter ( hibernating)
(9) Still as boring person as usual

So well, i guess thats all about myself but do check out my facebook for all the interesting photos of Malaysia. Wonderful and lovely country... (Bullshit!)

Back to School!!

2009-01-13T08:50:00.000-08:00

It's back to school time again and honestly i felt like the way i feel when i was 5years old reluctantly being forced to school by my parents. The difference now is that i am away from my family and i am 19! :)

I know i should be feeling really excited about going to school again but the thoughts of being independent once again after being pampered in Malaysia for the past 18 years terrified me, at least to some extent.

Motivationsss! I need some of those before it goes depleted! Hopefully i could find some from the Law of Attraction...? :P

Wish me luck and God bless me! :)

Malaysia Rocksss... In some sense

2008-12-23T01:41:00.000-08:00

I am home! Malaysia is such a great country except for the 35 degree celcius weather. Didnt realize i am raised in such a humid country before i went to the States. Anyhow, gonna relax myself first after 1 whole year of hustle and bustle! Call me out anytime buddies! :)

Time Flies when you are having Fun!

2008-12-03T10:06:00.001-08:00

Seasons come and go,
Studying in the US is a waste of dough,
Looking forward to get back home,
Where everywhere has a toll.

Oh no! Lame....

Well, the time of the year when christmas songs were played has arrived. It is also a sign that finals is here. But as one of my friends said, "Exams is about the holidays after that" which is true because i will be back in Malaysia( the land of good foods) again next week!

Looking forward for the 22 hours flight and All the best to all who is having their finals and happy holiday to others who are having their holidays! :)

22 more days and counting to Christmas! Yeah!!!

Barack Obama - 44th president of the United States-

2008-11-08T12:56:00.000-08:00

On the 4th of Novermber 2008, history was made! The book of history flips to its new page as the day breaks dawn. As milllions of people around the world await anxiously, the news that aesthetic the world but yet leaving millions wondering came - Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States in an unexpected landslide election.

Being the first African American in 200 + years since Thomas Jefferson first drafted the Declaration of Independence, Obama brought hope to the American by holding his campaign's theme - Change

Having a seemingly comparable experience only to Sarah Palin, Republican Vice President nominee, Obama has shown a more commanding leadership skill and charismatic compared to a person who has served the country for over 50 years - John McCain

John McCain, no doubt has shown patriotism for the United States, but the US do not need a president who finished 2nd from the bottom of a class of 600 person and crashed 2 planes during his military practice only to get away from getting sack from the camp because of the reputation of his grandfather and father.
On the other hand, Obama, coming from a poor family without his father, graduated from Harvard with a honors in Law practice. He was offered high paid jobs in the Wall Street but he declined because he know he has a bigger goal to achieve, that is to be the next president of the United States. Walking up to the chairman of Democratic party, Obama, in one fine day, said " if you are looking for a person to be the next president of the United States, i am the one"

Having basically nothing to start off with, he was faced with Hillary Clinton in the primary election. Hillary Clinton was well known because of her husband, Bill Clinton, and have all the fortune to stack up well over that of Obama.
Obama, however, have to run the campaign by setting up his website in which hoping that his fans would donate money to his campaign. Being a charismatic speaker, he, of course has win the heart of most of the people and thus helping him in winning Hillary Clinton in a tight Democratic race.

He is one step closer to achieving his dream but yet, far fetched from a good night sleep. He was faced with McCain who was expected to win most of the southern state's vote. However, McCain was faced with a thousand pound burden - George W. Bush!!
He is always being associated with Bush, who has turned United State's surplus into a multi billion dollar deficit.
After many advertisement, endorsement, debates, the eve of the election is here. I was fortunate enough to be able to witness the final speeches of both presidential candidate. Campaigning non stop from 7am until the time i go to the bed, it is undoubt a living hell for both the candidate.
"From the rocky mountain Maine to the sunshine California, we have endured 21 months of campaigning." as Obama speaks in his speech, " when we first started with nothing, we know the slope is steep and the walk is hard, i will have one word for you all..... TOMORROW (crowd cheersss), tomorrow you can turn the page on policies that put the irresponsibility of Walstreet before the hard work and sacrifice of man and women across Mainstreet........"

On the morning of the eve of election, however, Obama's grandmother, who basically took care of Obama since young passed away after a long battle with cancer. But when he steped up on the stage, when the election results shown him to be the winner of the presidential race, he did not shown a sense of self deprive or depression because he know he has a more important part to play - to bring America to a new direction, one that will benefit the world. In his acceptance speech, he say " Although no longer with us, I know my grandmother will be looking at me and i miss her tonight...."

However, a lot of hatred was brought by older white mens towards Obama as they are not ready to allow a black, who once was thought to be only as slaves, to lead the most powerful country in the world. When Obama spoke of McCain in his acceptance speech, the crowd cheers but when McCain spoke of Obama in his speech to congratulate Obama, the crowd "Boo".
A lot of rumors now speculate that Obama might be assasinate before Jan 20 of 2009 and that Obama is an Anti- Christ who will bring the end to the world according to the scripture Revelation. Who is right and who is wrong, the answer is still nowhere to be seen. As to is Obama the "one" who will bring the world to a new direction, only the future will be the best answer to it. Let us keep an eye to the day when Obama and his family move into the White House. Nevertheless, the United States of America has it's new story to be told to the world.

Fatwa council...? Are they more dumb than a 1st grade kid?

2008-10-29T09:53:00.000-07:00

Saw this article online and thought i should share with everyone to portray the stupid-ness of the government in handling such a beautiful country, MALAYSIA!

Everyone, stop doing YOGA! It will distant you from your God and get nearer instead to INDIAN God... And dont eat healthy, dont do good things, dont exercise, dont work (like the government), receive bribery because end of the day, you just need to pray!!! Thats what the government teach us!!!! How STUPID ARE THEY!!!! Dumb asssssses in the government!

This is the article that will make you realize that the government is one big circus with all the clowns in it:

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Tomboys, Yoga...what next?

Coming soon: Fatwa on yoga

Oct 29, 08 4:08pm, Malaysiakini

The National Fatwa Council will be issuing a ruling soon relating to yoga exercise, which is deemed to be deviationist in nature for the Muslims.

An announcement on the matter is expected to be made soon by the fatwa council's chairperson Prof Dr Abdul Shukor Husin.

This was revealed by the deputy director-general of the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (Jakim) Othman Mustapha, reported Bernama today.

Yesterday, UKM lecturer Prof Zakaria Stapa advised Muslims who have taken up yoga - a widely popular exercise which has its roots to India and Hinduism - to stop practising it for fear that it could deviate them from their belief.

"Yoga originated from the Hindu community and it combines spiritual as well as their religious aspects. They believe it brings them closer to their god," he was reported as saying in Berita Harian today.

Zakaria was reported to have said that more Muslims were resorting to yoga exercise to find a balance in their hectic lifestyle.

He added that they should instead apply the Islamic teachings such as prayers to find peace and good health.

"If the Muslims want a healthy body, prayers are the right choice... why must we find alternate ways... a single mistake can deviate our teachings as yoga movements follow the style and tradition of Hinduism," he was reported as saying.

Ban on tomboys

The perils of yoga to the Muslims is learnt to have been discussed at the recently held fatwa council meeting in Kota Baru, Kelantan.

At the fatwa council meeting, the religious scholars have also decided to issue a fatwa against females from dressing or behaving like men and engaging in lesbian sex.

Council chairperson Abdul Shukor had said that many young women admired the way men dress, behave and socialise, violating human nature and denying their feminity.

"It is unacceptable to see women who love the male lifestyle including dressing in the clothes men wear," Abdul Shukor was quoted as saying.

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I'm just waiting for the National Fatwa Council to come out with fatwas against corruption, violence against women, cheating etc. Instead they have these.

Do they know anything about yoga or is this a classic case of reacting out of fear and ignorance? Yoga may have spiritual roots but most of us do it for the exercise, both for the mind and body. It helps you to focus and in fact helps you to focus when you do your prayers. The one thing it does not do is make you want to beat up anyone, call people nasty names or issue fatwas on things you don't understand.

If prayers are the only thing you need to be healthy, why are there so many unhealthy Muslims? Is this an indication that they don't pray? If all you need do is pray, why do sports or eat healthily?

If they have ever found any Muslim who has converted out solely because of yoga, they should produce evidence instead of speculating on the 'weakness' of our faith. If it is 'weak' at all, it is because people like the Fatwa Council have done nothing to make it strong, constantly weakening it through fear and ignorance.

And what is this thing about 'dressing in clothes men wear'? If I wear a pantsuit (which incidentally covers very well), am I dressing like a man? If I cut my hair short because it is easier to upkeep, is that forbidden? Will we now have the Fatwa Council scan the fashion magazines and make rulings about which clothes are 'masculine' and which are 'feminine'? (And what is there to admire about 'the male lifestyle' when males are represented by the men on the Fatwa Council?)

I know, I know...someone is going to tell me to shut up because apparently I don't know my religion. Well, that is a matter of opinion. The Islam that I believe in is just and fair, is compassionate, loving and peaceful.Someone tell me that's the wrong Islam.