The Kingdom

If you enjoy action movie, this movie is your sort.
If you always concern of the endless wars in lotsa hostile countries, you will be interested in this movie.
If you are curious what is the thinking of the citizen living in chaos, and even the secret power behind which force some people to risk their life for something they believe are worthy, I guess this movie can give you some idea as well.

Jamie Foxx, one of the current best actors in Hollywood, is the main attraction for me initially for this movie, but then I knew I will like it after a few scenes in the beginning of the story - it tells you the story in middle east, the disputable role of US in this place, the different thinking and story of Saudi Arabian, and of course, the force which makes both US army and t*rrorist to fight for the justice they believe. Most importantly, this movie is sitting on the fence thoroughly, no particular stand in either party, no religion discrimination and no US ego which I never buy it.


I can't help shedding my tears in the last scene, when the Arabian officer, Colonel Faris sacrificing his life for the faith he believes - peace. Colonel Faris is my favourite character in this film, because he believes in peace, regardless of anything. He is a warm-hearted mankind who disagree in simply taking people life, which is so contradict with those cruel "masked warloads" who are willing to risk others life for their own benefit.

"What did you tell her that day?"
One of the FBI agents asked Officer Ronald what did he tell Officer Janet to comfort her of losing their teammate in a well-planned attack.

"What did grandfather tell you when he was dying?"
The daughter of the General Al Abdulmalik asked her lil girl after their compound demolished by FBI and her father died.

"We will kill everyone of them."
The same answer of both of them. The endless war.

Fusion Haven

Fusion cuisine, the cuisine with a style of cooking that uses ingredients and techniques from around the world, especially one combines Eastern and Western influences. I'm a food lover, I alwiz wanna try different kinds of great food, but then, fusion cuisine is alwiz EXPENSIVE, or high-end where you might need to spend a few hundred bucks per meal, but hey..... I've found one, I mean, it's introduced by my food kaki, but it's the great one, the great cuisine with the reasonable price!!

I paid a visit to the restaurant in Sri Petaling on a Saturday night, wishing to get something special and delicious, and yes, I got that!!

Look at what we've ordered:



Appetizer: Vietnamese Baked Mussels, it's full with ginger taste and unique. Not so fatty but still, I prefer the mussel with lemon sauce in Fish & Co. :p



Main course 1: Milan Style Fried Chicken, luv the special made sauce, and guess what, the lil orange brown thing is RICE!! Cool huh~~



Main course 2: Japanese Miso Spicy Baked Butter Fish, oh, I luv the spicy miso thing paired with the fish. It suits gal because it's in small portion. =)



Dessert: Chocolate Mud Cake with Ice-Cream, you can see the chocolate flowing out from the mud cake when you cut it, yummy~

The food served with "style", and they're undeniably delicious with a very acceptable price, although the dessert is a lil bit too sweet for me. :)

We managed to chit chat with the boss, and hey, he is one great cuisine lover too!! He is a friendly and funny man, the funniest thing is, he dislike and he does not believe in occasion promotion, such as Valentine Dinner because, "I do not feel good to earn double on occasion while at the same time, limit people the food choice," he said. "Let them choose what they like to eat."

I'm glad that he is a food lover than a restaurant owner, and I'm glad that I got the chance to know it - FUSION HAVEN. =)

Way Back Into Love

I love music, I mean.... great music (for me), but you might find something "weird" with me, that is, 90% of the albums I bought are.... ceng ceng ceng~~~ ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK.

Movies with great music totally blow me off, and I will do everything I can to get the soundtrack for my collection, but still, I couldn't get "Moulin Rouge 1" until now.... :( My friend even can't get it for me in US... sob sob.

Anyway, that's too far from what I wanna share today, ahem.
There is another soundtrack which I likeeeee.... MUSIC AND LYRICS!!
Coz... coz coz I'm a fan of Hugh Grant!!! (ohhhh.... mature handsome charming MAN!!) and "WAY BACK INTO LOVE" he sing along with Drew Barrymore, omigod, the song is sooooo sweet. =)

You might wonder why the heck now only I blah so much about the soundtrack of this old movie?!
Becoz, I accidentally heard this song from the radio when I'm on my way back from office, and suddenly the sweet feeling just engulf my soul.... especially after another hectic day. Argh.

Hugh Grant, you rock!! Never thought that you can sing that well!!
But of course, still have to improve the skill compared with MY EWAN MC GREGOR. :p

Yummy Yummy Journey

Well, I know I gained weight recently... my puffy face is getting more and more bulat, but then, who cares? Let me complete my Hari Raya yummy yummy journey!!

Yummy yummy 2nd round:
Went for brunch with YJM's family in the "Long Dek Qun Yan" restaurant in One Utama. We had ra-mee, fried rice, claypot rice, the legendary Siu Long Bao and hey, my favourite fried durian dessert!!! Yeah!!
The food is undeniably delicious, including the soooo common fried rice, but it is indeed tasty!! But somehow, I'm kinda disappointed with the Ra-mee... erm, not my sort probably. The Siu Long Bao tastes good as usual, but ceng ceng ceng, here comes my favourite, the FRIED DURIAN DESSERT, omigod omigod, it's really finger-licking good :p (luckily no one took the picture of my greedy face :|)

*For dim-sum lover, there is one nice and cheap dim sum shop at PJ SS2, its name is "Tian Xin" - Sweetheart, not bad, should give it a try, but then, I was kinda disappointed with the "Tai Tong" noodle and dim sum shop.... aiks, thumbs-down.

Yummy yummy 3rd round:
Housemate's gf was here, she was looking for the traditional thai fried kangkung for sooooo long time, and hence, we brought them to the 100% original thai food stall in Jalang Gasing!! We had the 100% thai fried kangkung, the tomyam fish, cashewnut chicken in yam basket, the famous tradiational food "Cha Ong" and my favourite, SEAFOOD TOMYAM!! Wowwww..... I ate and ate and ate, can't help obsessed wif tomyam tomyam, hehehe...

For thai food lover, this stall is a very economic place for thai food, it's not expensive at all, and the food is great!!

*Anyhow, not really fond of the fish though*

Yummy yumm 4th round:
Just took a stroll in The Ikano, no where to go, just had our dinner at Kluang Station. The coffee is great, as usual, but then I was kinda surprised by its soooo ordinary fried beehon, the Kluang Siam Beehon.... wow the bihun indeed tastes good!! I enjoy having ordinary cheap delicious food, instead of luxury expensive unaffordable cuisine (becoz I am so damn poor :p)

Anyway, what a shame that I did not take any single photo of 'em, becoz..... I had no time for tht :p I couldn't wait enjoying my food served rather than taking pretty photo for them, keke. So now, it's your turn to search for nice food and introduce to ME!! Go go go!!

Yummy Yummy

Today is the greatest festival of our Malay buddies, and also, MA HOLIDAY!! Weeee!!

So, in order to "celebrate" my great day, I lazed away my time on my lovely bed for half day.... and being "forced" to take a stroll in Midvalley for some personal reasons. :p

So, the consequence of the "Midvalley lepak-ing" is... I spent a lot AGAIN!! :(
In order to comfort the fragile me, YJM offered to buy me smth sweet for tea-time. *winkz*

As I reached the little corner called "Sweetchat", I can't wait to rest on the cozy couch.... omigod my poor little feet.... and wow, there are quite a lot of people queue up, hmph....

Few minutes after that, wow, here comes my favourite durian pancake!!! Can't wait to telan 2 of them before I remember to take a picture of the little delicious stuff, heh. Omigod.... I LOVE DURIAN FOREVA!!

And here comes the dessert, the black glutinous tong yun!! Nice!! Anyway the tong yun is half-biten in the picture... so... kinda ugly, but it's indeed nice!! Don't judge a book by its appearance, k? :p

So, another thumb-ups tea time corner for me, what about you?

牵动人心的歌神

2007年9月14日，我期待已久的张学友巡回演唱会终于来临了！！是的，他是少数歌手能够让我心甘情愿地先破财，再忍受车龙人群穿过重重障碍，不顾一切只为能在现场欣赏他精湛的歌艺。

这已经我自上一回的雪狼湖舞台剧后，第二次看/听他的现场演出了，可是我还是非常的兴奋，就连友人都说从来没看过我如此投入地看演唱会，是的，我无论欣赏那一位歌手的现场演出，都只会静静坐在位置上，不喊不唱，就只有他能让我全然投入在他的歌声里，说得老套点，他的声音的确完完全全地牵动我的心弦。

久违的他还是那么有魅力，当然无可否认他没那么年轻了，声音也开始有一点沙哑（希望是因为不久前的感冒引起的吧）。其实，理智的分析，这一次的演唱会的确不太完美，半室外的演唱会馆令到声音不能集中，不完美的音响也令到歌神的歌声有时候显得模糊，再来就是不是每一个人都会喜欢的节目编排（中间插了雪狼湖和如果爱的片段），从观众的反应，很明显地看得出来不是每一个人都会欣赏歌舞剧似的歌曲。

可是，对我而言，我不在乎这一些瑕疵，因为我看到的，是一个用心唱歌，有内涵有智慧地生活的成熟男人。最令我感动的是在他分享音乐人生的部分，他分享了他这46年来对生活的体会，对家人的感受，对朋友离去的不舍，再献上他亲手做给大女儿、太太及逝去的朋友们的歌曲，在那一刻，我真的觉得很感动。美中不足的是，他的经典歌曲太多了，无法在3个小时的演唱会里一一都演唱，其中就包括了我的最爱– 你的名字，我的姓氏，成为了我最大的遗憾。:``(

今早一觉醒来，忽然间还有点失落的感觉，呵呵，还是很想念昨天在现场听他演唱的感觉。坦白说，面对该如何充分地表达他在我心目中的魅力，我真的词穷了。我只能说，他的歌声，能让我完完全全地沉醉在另一个世界里，他的用心，让我看到了一个认真男人热爱并执著于他的事业的魅力，他那谦卑的态度，让我看到一个成熟男人的亲和力。

听着他那一张与香港管弦乐队合作的“爱与交响曲”光碟，对我而言，他是无人能取代的。

彳亍地平线

前天打开公事包，把厚厚的 “The Devil Wears Prada” 拿了出来（我可是充分利用了搭地铁的时间，好不容易把厚厚的它给阅读完，还得忍受旁人用奇怪的眼神看着我神经质地边傻笑边看书，有时候还会噗哧地笑出来），放进书架里，才发现我只剩下一本更加厚的 “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter” 还没开张，可。。。可是，好厚涅。。。肤浅的我在这一个时候只想看一些薄薄的书，感觉上比较轻松, 嘻嘻。

机缘巧合之下，昨天我在午饭时间陪着朋友溜进了Kinokuniya书局，走着走着到了中文部，眼前一亮，好熟悉的封面，这不就是我想购买了很久的书吗？对，就是彳亍地平线，是林悦用她的笔和心来叙述着她与林剑强在两年里跨越欧亚大陆所体验的经历。

林悦一直是我蛮欣赏的。。。写作人，打从我在星洲副刊里看到她的文章（她是星洲副刊的记者），我就开始为她那畅快简单的文笔所着迷，再看到她顶着一头清爽又有型的短发，酷酷地拿着背囊就走，我仿佛看见她正在走着我极其羡慕但又没有胆量去开始的路。

彳亍地平线令人着迷的地方是，它没有一般旅游书籍的。。。商业化，它不介绍名胜地，不带你去吃好吃的，玩好玩的，也没有那一种旅人很自傲地向世人炫耀他又横跨了多少个国家的气势。作者很用心地去融入、体会、学习和明白每一个国家，每一种族人的生活，他们的文化，他们的日常生活等等，所以，这一本书，也满足了我对其他文化的好奇心和求知欲，太满足了！！值得一提的是，林剑强的摄影也为着一本书增色不少，一张张图片把我带进了当地的生活。

同事还开玩笑说，这一本书好有亲切感，因为我们都得出差去那一些第三世界的国家，呵呵，可不是吗。。。巴基斯坦、孟加拉、印度、尼泊尔等等，有多少人会自掏腰包到那些国家旅游呢？更甭说到那些地方观看他们的生活了。作者们还到了伊朗呢。。。还有我向往的土耳其。。。实在太佩服他们勇于抛下一切的勇气，当然，我必须鼓励自己，我也能够做到的！！

我相信接下来的搭地铁日子都会是开心并满足的。:)

Sweet Sweet Pals

6th of Sept 2007, a just-so-normal day for everyone out there, but it's a special & warm & sweet sweet day for us!! 7 of us were having a gathering in SS2 straight away after work. We cracked jokes together, we laughed and threw away all sadness, we listened and marah sama-sama while others complaining about their works, we vent out everything without fearing being back stab. And this is what genuine friendship means. :)

4 years of Uni studying life, we were bond stronger and stronger, we've been thru thick and thin, we quarrel, we argue.... but when anyone of us is enduring sadness, all of us will do anything we can to help, and yes, we worry about him/her just like his/her mum, but yalah, it's also because of the 8-gua-ness, lol.

Treasure every friend beside you, it's not easy to find a trustworthy friend in your life, and for us, I believe that the friendship will never end. :D

Love Actually

I'm a movie lover, and undeniably a music lover as well. I'll fully indulge myself in great movie and music, to the extent that I think life is perfect with their existence. And I have to admit that, I really "diu tok" (kena racun) with my favourite movie ever after, Love Actually, so is its OST, which I've bought few years ago even tho I was so darn poor that time.

I LUV christmas, maybe it's becoz I was born on Christmas Eve. *winkz* And this, is one of the reasons why I luv Love Actually so much, it's all about LOVE, every linked story happened counting down for Christmas. To be frank, I watch this movie over and over again every year counting down for Christmas, yes, I NEVER get bored.

I luv British English, I think it is SEXY. I luv movie softly gently talking about every little thing in life, in relationship.... everything, for me, it's warm. I luv movie with great songs and music at the proper timing. And thus, I luv Love Actually, with lotsa talented British actors/actress, with the OST featuring Dido, Texas, Lynden David Hall, Norah Jones, Gabrielle, blah blah, and CRAIG ARMSTRONG!! *Oh, I just luv the Glasglow Love Theme composed by HIM soooo much*

I feel love in this movie, and I do hope that everyone can be like them, expressing our love to everyone around us in such a sweet way. :p

Love actually is all around.

Miss You. Take Care.

It's 11:30pm now, and you are flying to Bahrain soon... 4 more hours to go.
I miss you, I have been missing you for quite a long time, since we never talked to each other, since you started to ignore me.
But I just want to say that, I'm really proud of you.

You told mum that you want to live your own life, and you want to decide every single thing in your life, and you made it!! Now you're in your favourite field and you're going to grab everything chances awaiting for you, with the support of all of us.

It's kinda funny... or maybe it's just a coicidence that, our relationship eased and improved whenever you're going oversea.
Remember the first time you called me from UK? The phone call is the greatest present for me throughout the year.
And I still remember that we kept emailing each other since the call, you told me about your life in Europe and everything... and still, I keep the mails.

Afterall, another misunderstanding spilt us away. You refuse to listen any explanation from me, I was so upset, but I told myself that, one day, you will understand... because love is the universal language that no one should ever mis-interpret it. And now, I'm just so happy that finally you answered my call half an hour before, and from the way you speak, I know that finally you're willing to listen to me, and your message which I received 15 minutes before is the gift which put the smile on my tired face now. =)

Finally, take a GOOD care, ok? Call mum frequently, she will be waiting for your call everyday, just like any mother worries for their children. Call me, whenever you need me, and I'll be there for you, no matter what.

OT GILA SIAL

It's 12am now, and I'm still sitting here and surfing here with no particular intention, I'm just waiting for my hair to dry so that I don't have to sleep with a wet hair.

Today is Thursday, and tomorrow will be the GREAT TGI FRIDAY!! Yeay!! I should scream YEAY YEAY YEAY, but I din't, and I can't.

Someone complain that my eyes are getting smaller and smaller, asked me don't go and peep people's bathing. Yeah right.

Ma bitch said I'm a bit bitchy today when we were in LRT just now, yeah, I know you don't play friendster and you're not going to read this. And he said:" I guess this is because you have to work on this weekends, again." Ya, and hey, I'll meet you in the office on both days, yeay. :D *Tiong Seng, don't be a 25 guy by informing your master about this, I know he is an alien though*

I had been skipping swimming exercise for 2 weeks, and I just went for my gym class once in the last week.

All of these are because of one single reason, OT OT OT OT OT SUPER OT.
I have dinner, sometimes I skip it, at around 11pm everyday now.
I took bath at around 11:30pm now, slept at 12:30am and wake up with eye bags at 7am.

Well well, my Huawei fellow, you don't have to read this, because this is what you feel too, so.... no elaboration is needed for you guys. For working fellow, you might have the same life too, so... good luck. For student, APPRECIATE your life now, you are going to miss your school life sooner or later, keke.

No Pain No Gain, wow, what a great motto of life, I believe that this is what urge us to WAKE UP, and GO TO WORK as usual everyday with a CHEERFUL MIND. Anyway, 既来之，则安之.... I'm enjoying my life with this WONDERFUL quote. *_^

Memories in Hong Kong

What would you think of while mentioning Hong Kong?

Egg tart? Disneyland? Ocean park? SHOPPING? Or Lei Kar Sheng?!

Well, for me, Hong Kong is not really impressive... maybe the super hot temperature is part of the reasons... it's summer now with 34 degree celcius, super hot!! No boots no jacket, everybode wear sleeveless short pants and sport shoes everywhere, and still, you sweat one second after you step out from air-conditioned room.

Ocean Park doesn't really impressed me as well since I have to walk around and play under the hot sun!! Argh.... but well well, to be honest the deep sea creatures are quite impressive, the hammerhead shark, stingray, dolphin, and of course the famous sea lion Wai Wai which had been starring in quite a lot of Hong Kong drama series.

Anyhow, the night scene view from Victoria's Peak is superb!! Besides the luxury bungalows on the peak, the enchanted night scenery from the peak is breathtaking as well!! But then, the price of the dinner in every single restaurant of the peak is sky-high... :| luckily we found a Burger King in one of the floors :D otherwise.... sob sob, we'll have to go down from the peak with an empty stomach. ;(

So, if you ask me, what would be the most impressive memory for me in Hong Kong? I will say, airport. Despite of the great location of the airport (It's surrounded by the sea :D), the point is....... I've been caught for bringing illegal WEAPON!!!

I've been traveling around without awaring that I'm bringing a pepper spray in my handbag... I mean I've been bringing this with me to at least 4 countries.... and stupid me, I never know that it's an illegal weapon in Hong Kong. When we passed through the custom, an officer stopped me and checked my handbag, I was still quite calm since I "KNOW" I am not a cocaine smuggler... but then, the officer become tense as he saw a pepper spray in my bag... I was still wondering, so what the heck? Just throw away lah I don't care. But then he ANNOUNCE my crime seriously that:" Siu Je, now we are suspecting you bringing illegal weapon in Hong Kong, we'll call the police now and they might accuse you blah blah blah."

I was like... WHAT?!!!! ACCUSE?! No no no, I'm no a Hong Kong citizen and I don't know about that, and omg, would you put me in jail or something? The officer was soooo fierce and he just took me to a security checking corner with lotsa people looking at me like I am bringing a bomb.... later on, a girl officer came and scolded the guy:"Hey, you don't scare her can ah? She is just a visitor and you just don't scare her, k?" Another office came and comfort me:" Don't worry, we understand that, actually many tourists made the mistake, normally if you never did anything wrong in Hong Kong then they will just give you a warning, nothing one, don't worry." Ohhh, I really appreciate the comfort and greatest help from both of them.

Sooner, 6 policemen came (?!) for investigation... aiks. But out of my expectation, all of them are soooo friendly and nice, one of them talked to me:" Miss, can you speak cantonese?" Oh ya ya, I can. He looked soooo released knowing that I can speak cantonese:" Wah, hou hou, ng sai geng ahhh.... mou si gehh.... jeng hai procedure jeh." Phew.... they asked me about my occupation, checked my record in Hong Kong blah blah, and they finished everything within 15 minutes, ya, some more they can grab the time to chat with me to make me relax:" Wah, lei ge gong tong wah ng co ohhh.... lek lui wohh." "Ok lah, hang dak lah, bye bye lahhh,gei dak ha ci ng hou dai lah." As what I know, if i'm ever bring the pepper spray with me again in Hong Kong, I'll be charged.... phew....

What should I say? I think it's better to blame myself for being stupid and also, I think I'm really impressed with the professionalism and high efficiency of officer and policemen in Hong Kong, you guys are great lah.... since I'm still able to catch up my flight.

Good bye Hong Kong, really good bye, coz I don't think I'll go back there again, ciao.

深圳走一趟

从越南回到马来西亚3个星期，因为新的电讯技术关系，我又飞到了公司的总部接受培训，所以，深圳，我来了！！

打从以前就听说过深圳的治安是多么地差，什么老千啦、光天化日的劫匪啦，它可说是个龙蛇混杂的地方，不过能够有机会到公司宏伟的基地走走，还是挺新鲜的，再说深圳可说是出了名的冒牌货天地，几可乱真的冒牌的名牌包包随手可得。

中国人口众多，赚钱也很难，许多中国人都怀着一颗淘金的梦，从偏僻的农村来到深圳赚钱，也就造就了龙蛇混杂的环境，还有凶悍的售货员！！在讨价还价和浏览商品的时候，我可被凶悍的她们吓呆了。。。这是所谓的customer service吗？还有，千万千万记得要一半，再一半的砍价，她们出价都出的离谱的高，尤其是在罗湖这一个冒牌货天堂，千万不要被骗了。

不过，此趟最大的收获，是和我最敬爱的前任导师见面。一向来话不多的他只发了个邮件问我：“在哪里培训，我来见见你。”然后就请我吃了丰盛的湖北菜，点了一整桌的菜肴，有糖醋几里、三鲜锅、炖猪骨汤、还有闻名的饺子等等，还不停的把好吃的都夹给我。。。刚刚当上了爸爸的他消瘦了些，他笑呵呵地说因为把好的都给了孩子。。。他一向是个含蓄的人，而且充满智慧，常常教导我做人的道理。您放心，您说的每一句话，我都记在心里。

在深圳待了一个星期，该走啦。。。深圳，再见！！

Nui Ngu Hanh Son (Marble Mountains)

Mountains are everywhere in Danang, and yet, Nui Ngu Hanh Son are a well-known feature of the landscape of Danang and Central Vietnam.

From Wikipedia, Marble Mountain (Vietnamese: Nui Ngu Hanh Son "Five Element Mountains) is a cluster of five marble and limestones hills located in Ngu Hanh Son ward, south of Danang city in Vietnam. The five "mountains" are named under the five elements Kim (metal), Thuy (water), Moc (wood), Hoa (fire) and Tho (earth).





Although I'm not really fond of marble, but yet I have to admit that, the stone sculpture making, stone cutting crafts, marble carving and wood carving are amazing!! Anyhow, they are pricey too where one small marble bowl might cost you few hundred USD, wow!! I'm obsessed with those marble telephone set.... but yet, nice to see, nice to hold... blah blah blah.... no money, better don't touch. End up I bought two littel little little marble fishermen sculpture for 10USD, argh..... *money money money money.... money*

Oh ya, there is a legend about this cluster of mountains, that the sea dragon came onto the shore and laid an egg. After  one thousand days and nights, the egg hatched and out stepped a beautiful young lady. The broken shell fragments grew larger until they were transformed into five separate mounts that was named after each of the essential elements constituting the universe by a king of the Nguyen Dynasty, and here they are, the five elements as mentioned above.

Anyhow, I hope that there won't be huge destruction here.... I hope not to see such a beautiful natural land-form transformed into scattered stones few hundred years later.

Caffe-Sua-Da

Caffe-Sua-Da, means Iced Milk Coffee in Vietnamese.

It is a famous or so-called common drink in Vietnam, and you can find many coffee shops in every single province in Vietnam no matter how rural the province is. There is a wide range of coffee shop as well, from those rows of chairs along the dusty road *ya.. yam cha while yam-ing dust*, or medium-class coffee shop in residential houses, or up to grand coffee house with car-parking service.



Instead of coffee, they serve Cha-Nong (Hot Tea) or Cha Da (Cold Tea) as well, but coffee is an unique thing that you can't find in any other country (maybe) where the "method" that they use to serve you is really different. A small drip filter with coffee powder to be brewed on top of a cup with condensed milk inside. You have to wait until all of the brewed coffee flowing into the cup, then gotta manually remove the filter and then only put ice into the cup to make an icy drink.



I have no comment of the erm... EFFECT of the "method", but well, at least you can curi tulang a bit while having a coffee break on working day. ;p

Had been very busy for these few days, hopefully can take a chance to taste the famous coffee in Vietnam - Weasel Coffee in this few weeks. Waiting waiting, hehe....

Hanoi

Finally, I reached Hanoi - the capital of Vietnam. Once I stepped on this land, I feel peace... ya, it's a peaceful place for me... and it's more or less like a developed version of Cambodia, with the continuous car honks, the incredible traffic where thousands of motorbikes, lotsa pedestrians and some cars move on the road regardless of traffic rules or traffic light.

We're here to settle some urgent issues of operator, and because of that, lotsa Malaysians are being assigned to be here.... and that's great!! We had our luxury dinner at one famous local restaurant which serves great and famous local cuisine. We had the famous spring roll, their specially-made pork, beef, "bon cha" (Mihun soup), and some special prawn roll with mint leaves.... their foods are always decorated or come with mint.... ya, they like mint.

Along the way walking back to hotel, it's considered quite safe, but still have to watch out for some stalker.... not sure what's their motive but just have to keep an eye on them.

Tomorrow I'll be flying to Danang - the 3rd biggest city in Vietnam, hopefully I can find another story there, ciao.

Hamster's Diary - Swimming Like A Fish!!

Finally I've finished my 13 swimming lesson!! Weeeee!!!
Well, swimming might be an easy task for anyone of you, but.... it WAS nearly a mission impossible for me. =(
If you do not believe it, here are some people you might ask for:

1. One of the snorkeling guides in Perhentian (actually all of 'em) *ahem* are very scared of me. WHY? Becoz I nearly tear off their shoulders and made them drown into the sea while trying to drag me back to the boat. :|

Please be noted that, I was with my life jacket on that time, but still I panic and struggled like hell. :|

2. One of my friends who WANTED to teach me swimming last time. As the first step, she asked me to step into the 5-feet pool, I did, and I screamed: "Wuah, so deep!!! I wanna get up!!" Then... she asked me to soak myself into the water while pulling the sides... and you know what? I did not dare to do at all.... not even once. >.

暹内的小天使

暹内(Siem Reap)，以拥有
“The New Seven Wonders of the World” 之一的吴哥窟
(Angkor Wat) 而闻名，这个地方的经济完全依赖旅游业，每一天都有成千上万的游客对吴哥窟闻名而来，所以大大小小的酒店、旅馆、餐馆等等都充斥着这一个不算大的地方，美金更成为了比柬币更为通用的货币。

吴哥窟和吴哥通王城(Angkor Thom) 里所有建筑物的历史价值可是无可置疑的，举凡龙蟠可水池(Neak Pean)，圣剑寺(Preah Khan)，巴公寺(Bakong)，还有著名的女皇宫
(Banteay Srei)等，各式各样的雕塑都让人目不暇给，塔布茏寺
(Ta Prohm) 里翻墙蔓延的树根更是让人看的目瞪口呆，大名鼎鼎的吴哥窟当然也是游客的必到之处，它那70度倾斜而且狭窄的梯级让一些畏高的游客可望不可及，就连我爬到一半往下看时也捏了一把冷汗，还犹豫着应不应该半途折回，但想一想这么难得来到了这儿，不爬完还可真笨蛋，往上看还有些年老的长辈在努力地爬呢，好不容易硬着头皮用手脚并用地爬了上去，双脚都在微微发抖，羞死人了！再来还有吴哥窟著名的莲花池倒影，以及天还没亮就带着惺忪的睡眼以及颤抖的身躯去等待的日出。。。这一切一切，想必是每一个游客必做的功课。

如果你问我，什么东西是令我最难忘的，我会说，是暹内的小孩，是那些白天赤着脚，穿这肮脏的校服，跑几公里的沙路到破破烂烂的学校去上课，然后放学后换上一样肮脏破烂的衣服，在每一个名胜地里向游客兜售名信卡、纪念品的小孩。
“You want to buy T-shirt?” “You buy from me?” “I give you discount.” 暹内的小孩都长得很可爱，乌溜溜的眼睛，蜜糖般的肤色，略带羞涩的笑容，我给他们带了糖果、巧克力，以及文具等等，还有点后悔没带旧衣裳。大部分的小孩都很有礼貌，他们会用双手来接你给的东西，然后双手合十的说声：“Oh
Khun.” 意思是谢谢，然后开开心心的吃糖果，还会把糖果纸丢进垃圾桶，比大部分的马来西亚公民（包括成年人）还要懂事，有些则会收着糖果，不舍得吃，另一些还会说:
“I don’t want candy, can you give me pen? I need to in school.” 心酸吧？

Peeap 是一个很乖巧的女孩，我永远都忘不了她跑向我，递了一张她亲手画上花朵，写上祝福及感激字句的小卡片，并对我说:
“I give you flower, I give you luck, I won’t forget your smile, please do not
forget me too.” 这一幕。还有一位穿这黄外套红裙子，看起来只有三四岁的可爱小女孩，她用童稚的声音说:
“Post card, one dollar.” 非常可爱。。。看着她用布满泥沙的小手开开心心地把五颜六色的水果布丁塞进小嘴里。。。忍不住要亲抚她的小脸。一群孤儿在孤儿院老师的带领下向游客募捐，在递给老师一袋文具以及给了每一个孤儿一些零食后，他们都用感激的眼神不住对你说谢谢，我还记得孤儿纯朴、天真的眼神，当时除了对他们微笑，我还真的不知该说些什么。

我希望上帝还没忘记这一个地方，这里的小孩喜欢说:
“Good luck.”，我衷心地祝福他们，good
luck。

Blood Diamond

If you think you look so darn elegant and glamorous with diamond necklace or ring or any accessories, watch Blood Diamond and think again;

If you like to show off your how many carat of diamond ring to your colleague or pals, yes, watch Blood Diamond;

If you think one's status or so-called beauty is reflected by the diamond or any branded stuff you're wearing, I tell you what, money isn't make you looks prettier while knowledge and kind heart are the things you should have;

If you think Africa is so far away and none of your bloody business, go read any book related to starving African or tribal war which happened so frequent in Africa;

If you think I'm just another stupid fella who is wasting my time because I cannot change the world, well ya, I know I that I'm just nobody and I ain't going to rule this world, I just do what I can do;

If you're interested to know more about African poverty and wish to offer some helps, log on to any website of World Relief Emergency, there are many ways to help them;

If you know what can we do to help them more, please share with me because I'm still a shallow fella and I need someone to guide me;

If you think Africa is too far away to help, yes, we can start from here, do donate your old clothes and old stuff to orphanage and there are some people to collect and distribute in PJ SS2 every 3rd Sunday; Buy tissue or biscuit from those disabled instead of buying Toto every week, and remember to put the money nicely into the money box with smile on your face, your smile would brighten up their second of life;

If you think I'm too much, so sorry about it, and this is me, an odd ball, and don't worry, we still can befriend, haha...

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (西藏生死书)

I’m a person full with questions in my brain since I was a
child. I woke my father up in the middle night just to ask him where would I be
after I died, I seek for the answer why did god create us while only allow few years
lifespan for us to stay on earth, I wondered why there are so many religions in
this world and does it means that there are different heaven and hell for each
religion, I questioned god why there are so many unfair phenomenon in people’s
life where some people live in poverty, struggling with war, famine with their
body bared, while some other might enjoy their luxury life in the other corner
of the world, spending plenty of money just to get one fashionable jacket with
animal fur on their shoulder.

Plenty of issues brought me to learn about Buddhism, and
certainly there is a fate for me to read this – The Tibetan Book of Living and
Dying. One good thing about this book is that, you don’t have to be a Buddhist
to read it; it’s for all of us, regardless of religion.

It talks a lot about living and dying, of course, even
elaborate the details of dying process, and teach us how we should face the
death. BUT, the most valuable knowledge that I’ve learned from it is not about
death, but it’s about the proper way of living.

I believe that death is not the final destination of life;
hence, we shouldn’t ruin the world harshly just to get the natural resource for
our own sake, knowing that it will cause irremediable consequences to the
earth. Knowing more about the Circle of Incarnation and Sangsara, it’s
explicitly shown that we should always let go some silly and unnecessary
thoughts which are the root causes for all sorrows. Knowing more about Karma,
you will know that everyone must responsible for every single thing you’ve
done.

It’s always hard for us to forsake our long-time-existing
habit, even though we know that they are silly. But it’s always good for us to remind
ourselves to live with a peaceful soul everyday, and not to be stubborn,
selfish, and greedy. May this world full with love and peacefulness.

伤城 (The Confession of Pain)

在还未看这套宣传来势汹汹的电影前，就已经听到一些朋友的观后感，以及在报纸上看到不少的影评，朋友说：“还好啦，可能本来就期望不高。”另一些则说：“当然好看啦，我的金成武多帅，他啊，。。。。”影评则好坏参半，大部分都说这部电影表现中规中矩，并把失望归咎于过度的宣传等等。

在看电影这一方面，我是一个挺。。。固执的人，我只相信自己看的，因为我总相信每一个人的品味不同。我不常看港产片，只有少有的演员可以让我舍得花钱到戏院里去，刘青云、吴镇宇、黎耀祥（是的，就是他）、巩俐、张曼玉，甚至是林家栋，当然，还有少不了的梁朝伟。所以，我还是掏了十零吉，狠下心地到戏院去观赏。

金成武，相信没有人会说他不帅吧，当然我也觉得他帅透了，可也许是他那半咸不淡的广东话，总让我难以投入在他的表演中，但更有可能的是，他遇到了一个非常强的对手
- 梁朝伟。他精湛的表演牵动了整套戏的脉搏，他深沉的眼神告诉了你何谓用眼睛来演戏，他入木三分的演技证明了他多届影帝的殊荣。总觉得没有多少个人可以像他这样，把这一个带着复仇包袱的复杂人物演的这么入神，尤其喜欢看他在秘密几乎要被揭穿时，冷静地戴上眼镜，从容的带着冷笑去应付，但就让我敬佩的一幕，莫过于接近片末时，看着心爱的女人被自己伤害到躺在床上奄奄一息，并被金成武质问时，他说道：“她也是我的家人。”语末，一滴眼泪悄然滑落，没有用太多激动的表情就能完全展现出迟来的懊悔、心痛以及顿悟，完全符合片中人物深沉且不可捉摸的性格。

无可否认，此片始终带有浓厚的典型港片影子，尤其是结局，总觉得如果在适当的时候就结尾，会比较完美，剧情的铺排也显得小心翼翼，少了些让人意外的情节。但我还是满意的，因为梁朝伟，还有，因为完美的配乐。