Food For Thought . . .

Mmmm... Food is thr everywhere i go..
It's just a matter of imagination . . . ;)

What a wonderful world..

click here first.. http://ccuw.org/wonderfulworld.MP3 n sing along..

I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world

The colours of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shakin' hands, sayin' "How do you do?"
They're really saying "I love you"

I hear babies cryin', I watch them grow
They'll learn much more than I'll ever know
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
Yes, I think to myself, what a wonderful world Oh yeah



a shortcut remedy to feel ok when ur feelin down..

1. Brush aside the problem, no matter how severe it is, at least temporarily o for a while. Everyone needs a break every once in a while.
2. Deal w the prob only when you're feeling better. Handle it rationally, dun ever let ur emotion come in the way.
3. Break away at least once a month, to keep remindin urself tat this world is stil very beautiful n wonderful. ;) Life is a flower... remember.. ;)

tips to breakaway -
1. forget abt d concrete jungle! try venturing into Mother Nature.. visit Lake TTwangsa, KL Bird Park, Lake Garden, Hibiscus Park, Orchid Park, Frasers Hill, Cameron, National Parks... some of which u dun have to pay a cent to enter. ;)
2. Mingle n meet n mix with ppl from different walks of life.. it's best if you meet ppl who are motivating, upgoing, happy-go-lucky..etc etc etc.. which wil lift ur mood up.

wouldnt it b nice to b young again?

so sori ya.. uchen, tx for u comments..actuali good n hapi stuff seem to happen to me everyday.. bt, it's just tat by d time i reach home, im already vy tired.. al i wana do is to chat online, n rest.. play w my toffee.. do other stuff.. din't reali hav time for blog. hehee.. ;P

yesternite was my 2nd tuition clas with d same students.. afta d first time incidence, i made a point to control my laughter in d class, no matter how bad d situation.. muz act like a matured adult infront of those kids. i was discussing the answers for "fill up d blanks" n i was reading the sentences out loud. upon reaching the "blanks" i'll say "dash". There was once when i read "dash", i saw a girl nodded her head happily n flashed a big smile at me, then ticked her answer correct. Hey, i was wondering.. i havent say the answer.. so i peeked at her answer (which she ticked correct).. n it was exactly a "-" (dash). At tat point i couldnt help bursting into laughter.. bt tis time i managed to turn my head to d white board n tittered alone. afta a while.. haaah.. i succeeded in self-control. working w the kids r fun, coz they seem so naive, innocent, making funny mistakes.. n when accidentally-laughed-at, they'l smile n laugh along..well well well...

2day i brought group of kindergarten kids to KL bird park n Balai bomba along Jln Hang Tuah. Cute, undoubtedly they are. Bt very naughty (80%) of them. they Like to loiter in groups (without teachers n me!) n walk ahead of the group. So fine.. at first i had a hard time controlling them tis n tat.. bt later i learned sth very valuable.. these kids lov attention n praise! so i go around holdin those who lov walkin alone.. n guess? they're so proud tat i was holdin their hands! once i noticed a gal held her hand (which i was holding) up, n proudly said sth to her frens, i didnt hear it.. bt i know she liked it.

There was another boy whom was so stubborn, a 4-year-old-lone- ranger (heard of it?? gosh..) The irony is, his mom was thr al the while, n she can't even control him! (forget abt d teachers) so i went to hold his hand, said some praise, scared him here n thr.. n bingo! he held my hand tight for the rest of the tour.

i even saw a kid playfully whacked his fren when he's not lookin. His fren knew tat it's him n was angry. wat happened next was amazing.. the boy went chasin his fren to apologize, in a very sincere manner all the way until they went up the bus! he kept repeating the same phrase, "Don't be angry.. im sorry.. i'm realli sorry.. i'm sori.. i'm sorri..."

Kids are like soft clay, impressionable.. mould them wisely.
"We are not raising children, we are raising adults." ~Anonymous

when ur depressed...

n the world juz seems so bad, so awtar.. lousy..useless..meaningless.. try lookin up into d sky.. & see? (if u cant see, imagine!) thr r so many, millions of stars shining, twinkling all d time, beautifully every second of the day.. looking at the stars.. remember tat our big, enormous sun is just one little star.. out of the millions in the milky way. Not to mention our earth.. which must b like an ant.. and us human beings? of course, some where around an atom's size.. or smaller most probably..

Now think.. if the sun suddenly disappears.. wil it bring much differences to the universe? without the sun..the universe lives on with al other existing n growing stars.. as if nothing had ever happened. o perhaps only the minute atoms (us) wil b affected.. now wat if the Earth disappears? again.. the universe may not even notice it, coz it's so tiny miney.. so who cares? well.. mayb the atoms care.. so, realizing how small we actuali are in the universe.. how can any of our problems b any bigger? it'z definitely vy small.. but a wrong perspective wil lead u to think tat your problem is larger than anything could ever exist!

So now, whenever ur depressed, it's time to kick ur shoes off, sit back n relax.. then look up into the sky.. and rearrange your perspective. Life after all is short.. live it happily n meaningfully. ;)

*ideas from iSMILE mag*

credit card fraud,anyone?

today iz d first day of my full-time work..in a cafe cum restaurant cum grocery.. basicali my job is to serve d customers, waitress, make drinks.. n etc etc..

it was an interesting day indeed.. i was given a practical "exam" played by the senior staffs there.. where they pretended to be the customers n i the waitress... so they were bombarding questions n demands at me.. a few being..
"i want to eat macdonald burger here, coz i buy your drinks."
"any alcoholic drink here?" i havent cek tis out yet. i failed, definitely. bt thank goodness.. the objective was only to train me.
"any japanese food?" i was cramming my brain with the menu items.. tat i blacked out. "No, we don't serve any japanese food here, unfortunately." "Are you sure????? my fren just ate....." of course.. i was wrong again.
"i want chicken.. and chicken spareparks as well." hello???? spare tyre is it??? fat??
"if i buy a chicken from your grocery, can u cook it for me?" excusez moi??? am i ur maid??
"any buy 2 free 1 drink?"
"can u make ur dry noodle not dry?" ok.. mayb som customers r 3-5 times worse than these..

though some questions sound absurd.. but tat's wat life is. clients, afterall.. are our priority. :P

n d best part was.. i was trained on how to detect a fraud credit card! oh boy.. n of course.. wat to do when you're suspicous on d authenticity of a credit card. There were at least 8 points to look at..

We were first given each 2 samples of genuine credit cards, both visa n mastercard.. n a MAGNIFYING glass. gues wat do we do with it? ngek ngek ngek.. guess first.. here are the 2 points tat i feel ok to share it here. d rest.. i juz dun feel ok with it.

1. Visa cards' numbers begin with 4, whereas mastercard 5.
2. Visa cards' hologram pic is made of a flying dove, whereas mastercard globe. .

tang tang !! n more... delicate, detailed stuffs tats never crossed my mind!

I use my full power, aa bouu kuuen !

yesternite was d first day me givin english tuition to a bunch of F1 n 2 students. One of my sessions was essay writing.. where i want em to begin with, "Help! Help!" During the 50 minute exercise, i walked around the clas, zoomin to any student's aid, shall they signal me.

So there was tis F2 boy, who kept asking me questions, n i answered attentively all the time. Once, he asked for d synonym of "catch". While thinking for the words, i scanned thru his essay n saw tis, "I use my full power to throw the stone at him". Immediately i imagined StreetFighter, where you have to wait til u get "full power".. i couldn't help laughing, imaginin the boy as Ryu, or Guile doin "aaa-bouu-kuuen!" with the fire ball coming out from his palms.

I knew well enuf tat its bad to laugh at students' creativity.. but at tat point i juz couln't help it. i kept apologizing to him while guffawing louder with interruptions of guilty looks. boy.. it's been a real long time since i laughed madly like tat.. my could fee my face burning, n my stomach ached.

after abt 1 min.. i finali gained ctrl of myself, n gav d boy a final apology. I was so worried tat he'll be hurt.. but thank goodness.. he laughed too.. n as a confirmation to me tat he's "OK", he asked more questions later. lucky lucky..

toffee, SPEAK!

I've been to vet clinics, where the owners always complain tat it's impossible to train his/her dogs bcoz of tis, tat.. the commonest being, "my dog's only 9 months old! how to train? he wun listen to y until he's 1!" ahem ahem.. well, you're the CLIENT... so i juz replied with a polite smile. In fact, my doggy Toffee was just 3month old when he learned ,
"Sit" ,
"Down" ,
"Hand" ,

"Come" and of course, the one we use commonest, "NO!".

2 days ago i started training him to speak, which actuali means barking. tis is a good training, as it trains ur doggy to bark at ur command, which indirectly allows u to control when and where for him to bark. By right, i should find sth tat intrigues him into barking.. but after a long while of thinking n looking.. i realize tat my Toffee dun usually barks.. he barks only at strangers n cats (i'm trying to eliminate tis trait!).

so I found a penguin toddler-stool, which he's very much frightened of, and used it to lure him into barking. The beginning was real slow, as he kept running away from it. after abt 5 min, he began learning to bark at it, but frequently running away from it as well. the entire session took me at least 30 min.. but it's worth.. for there were a few times when i said "Bark" without using the penguin, he gave a few deliberately-made-up "pfffff"s and "fierce look"s.


scary penguins... boooo... kekekekeke..

Paws for a cause Day

oh yeah.. Finali back to kepong! reali felt d days had been dragging slowly at underwater world.. hehe.. finali finali.. Took d 9.30pm bus fr K.Perlis to Pudu, so i reached Pudu around 5am.. by the time i got home, it's already 6am.. gosh.. thinking of wat i promised SAnn.. brrr.. grrr...

The alarm rang at 8am.. my palpebral fissures could hardly prove their existence.. bt thinking of my promise.. so quickly i got up..walked my Toffee, let him do all his businesses.. and then drove to Central Park @ Bandar Utama with An.. there's this Paws in the Park, Paws for a Cause Day, a doggy gathering day like Dogathon... bt entrance fee is free. Hoho.. got free door gifts summore wor... Supposedly reach there by 9am.. as promised to SAnn... however, as tis' d 1st time Toffee's going to such an event.. a lot of stuff which i haven't anticipate happened.. so gues? Reached there at 9.30! Sori SAnn dearie.. sori aaa.. :P

By the time i reached there.. people and dogs were already filling up the park! I guess around 200 owners gua.. I would have expected Toffee to b afraid with his new environment... instead, he ran crazily sniffing everywhere, all hell broke loose.. he even attempted to play, jump n climb on some dogs there.. ish ish.. controlling him iz not merely building up my muscles super-rapidly, i was even worried tat my shoulder joints will go loose with all his sudden thugs.. thinking of hip dysplacement.. is there such thing as shoulder displacement? omg...at d very moment i was real glad tat he's just medium sized.. not big sized as i have always wished for.. n thank goodness... my leash is a real big, thick one, which is meant for LARGE Breed dogs.. toffee toffee..

tot of cooling him down at some isolated place.. was i wrong.. the same frenzy happened.. until we finali reached a shelter, sat there. I gues Toffee finali took pity on us so he cooled down alittle.. but stil very excited with dogs around him.. other dogs bark, he barks along.. n demandin for attntion from ppl sitting nearby.. haha, lucky him.. some owners patted him and even said tat he's CUTE!! hahahahaha... my heart simply gleamed with pride. ekh ekh.. ;)
Look at d crowd!
An's fav dog ere. Huskies..
My target competition next year..

Ello puggy?
me,An,toffee..toffee look straight willya?
me + toffee, SAnn + furry

a spot 4him to cool down..
even going home aint an ez task. isk isk toffee...
gettin a reprimand fr d uptight owner.watchin cars pass by

Wrappin up Lgkawi trip

we got up, packed our bags.. n worked as usual.. mymind kept thinking of "home, home home.." hehe.. after a sumwat long wait.. oh yesSsSss! But MrKhoo, the manager of UWL wanted to see us trainees at 12pm.. was at first worried tat it may affect our plan, which is to tapao food at 12.30, then punch card at 1pm, then bathe, pack everything by 1.15pm... hehe..lucky lucky.. our plan went on smoothly.. except tat me n jun were abit slow.. :P

First we rushed to kuah, visited a few shopping "complex" thr.. bought our fav stuff.. gues? ting n jun went into chocolate frenzy! hmm.. well, true enuf, the chocs, wines, cigarettes.. bags.. n sum stuffs were cheap there. but hey.. food was expensive like mad.

then.. we drove on to langkawi crystal.. all expensive crystal stuffs thr.. did not reali attract me.. except for a few figurines which i took a photo of. then we headed on to galeria perdana.. wow.. tis is a real insight.. we get to see most of the ex PM's gifts, including a few cars, motor n bicycles! d building itself is very big, made up of 2 main double storey buildings linked by a slope. wat i like best is Dr M n his wife's history.. they're actuali classmates, graduated in 1947! class mates... coursemates.. thinking of my coursemates... any successful couple in d near future?? aiks.. Supposedly it will take us more than 2 hours to visit n look at the entire properties.. bt since we're running out of time.. we rushed all our way thru the building.. it was tiring even tho we're simply walking within air-conditioned n carpeted compound. heck.. we just finished work, n been rushing like the japanese..or hongkongese..or.. hmm.. not as fast as road-runners however.

then we move on to dataran lang, chogm park n nearby places for some photographin + modelling. hehe...

itz a cloudy day.bhind us iz dataran Lang.
y is Langkawi named Langkawi?

Ting found a "cave" beneath the Lang's gigantic statue.

a policeman took tis pic for us. hehe..

CHOGM Park! Green n eye soothing.

Dataran Lang's view fr chogmpark.

took us almost 7 minutes to get tis pic done.

at the jetty..

Le tour de langkawi

since d first day in UWL.. we've been lookin for loopholes sumwhere in the middle of our practical here.. to visit langkawi.. hey, y not? d return tickets cost us more th RM100! our plan worked out almost fine coz Dr Yus agreed to give us half day off (till 1pm, tat is) on saturday (our last day of practical! yahoo..). I would have defined it as "worked out great" have Dr gave us a full day off instead. hehe.. anyway.. we're already thrilled with satisfaction w this little privelege.

we rented a car at RM50 at friday evening, after work, n visited langkawi cable car (a superb, wonderful visit, not to be missed by anyone in langkwi! not even if ur height phobia, coz the view up thr is just so magnificient, MARVELOUS! wow..not to mention d strong cool gushes of wind), we couldnt locate Black Sand Beach, despite searchng for it for quite a distance, coz nite was fallin liao.. found a Black Sand Beach Resort, but then the sand aint black. nvrtheless, we visited a local nite market thr.. then took a wrong turn to Tanjung Rhu!

tell u.. tanjung rhu is another must-visit in langkawi! d beach is soOoOoOooo wide! i've never seen one as such in my entire life! too sad it was almost 9pm, with no aid of light, not even starlight, moonlight, it was mere darkness.. except for the white reflection of the sand..n we could hear the loud splashes of the violent waves.. so dared not walk too far.. i couldnt even see the sea! the beach was tat widE! thr were many stories abt tanjung rhu too.. an interestig place to visit. Ting longed to watch eagle feeding thr.. but at 9pm?? next time haaaa...

into cable car!
asia's longest cablecar..note the steepness.
almost sunset thr.. from top stn.
beautiful mother nature..
Mount Misty
Say hii..
air getting more mistier..
see the steep cable lines behindme!
enchantin pantai kok.
mini veges in a mini local nite market. :p
our last supper at pantai cenang. ordered cockles,fruits..

training is fun

Today is already the fourth day of my practical here at UWL.. I remember askin the previous batches of vet students abt wat they did here.. and all gav the same boring answer, "Be prepared to wash tanks! wash wash wash tanks n nothing else everyday!" Perhaps my group is lucky i gues.. wash tank? naeh.. besides brushing the penguin n seal floor, not even once.. except for ting.. even tat happened only once, which was when we needed to change the penguin's pond water. otherwise.. we're just preparing food.. asking questions.. picking up leaves.. walking up n down stares.. n wat i liked best in UWL is the rich resource of ORIGINAL marine-related books! omg.. they're so interesting.. hav i not been tired, exhausted n got sleepy easily.. i assure u that i definitely would have finished at least 10 books there!

Talking abt the exhibits..There were many animals here, besides the underwater creatures (all sorts of fishes... name freshwater (u got it!), salt water (u got it too!).. wt else?) anyway,there were also birds, reptiles, amphibians, marmosets… and many more.. the Rockhopper Penguins I guess, being the most expensive creature here.. they’re so cute. in my eyes, I see them as evolved ducks with enlarged chicken beaks+ some black n white dyed feathers.. perhaps to help them camouflage better in the poles..excellent at diving + jumpin (juz like dolphins!) n best of all, not afraid of mankind!

We hand feed d penguins twice a day with Mackerel fish.. squids..The experience was funny. Once we enter the tank with the feed, they quickly hop, hop hopped towards us! presumably tat's y they're called rockhopper, despite the long, old-lookin yellow "eye brows". then you’ll see them poking their heads to near you (just like dogs) urging you to put the fish into their mouth. You’l gawk at how they try their best to grip the fish from your hand, then look up straight into the sky, gloop gloop gloop.. inch by inch they swallow the fish down their throat. Hmm… I guess the esophagus muscles must be extremely strong n powerful. ;) ting kept exclaiming,"i can never imagine myself swallowing 5 fishes at 1 go!!" again n again.. i heard him exclaimin with the same excitement, eyes almost bulging out.. hehe..

Trainees cant feed the 3 harbour seals thr, coz unlike the penguins, they’re very nervous creatures. They eat only from ppl who they’re familiar with. Once, my fren ZiShiong went into the seal tank to watch the keepers feed. Once the mama seal noticed his head poking out from the acrylic rocks in the tank, she refused to surface to be fed! instead she spied n spied on... until ZiShiong finali went out.

tis is UWL!! ;)
poor chicken,locked w anaconda. Whoosh!

beautiful mandarin ducks, yin yang.

me feedin suspicious marmosets

selectin healthy fish for penguins

ZiShion, Junita feedin penguins

Foong feedin cutie otter

helo mR diveR

largest Freshwater fish, arapaima

while visitin UWL, look up anywhere.. ur bein observed.

ladies' quarters..
PUFFER FISH landing at Pantai Cenang!!!!! tis is a poisonous fish..careful of the durian-like thorns.. they sting!
young men having fun with beach-futsal.. ouch! d ball actuali hit me!

First day - underwater world practical

Brrr... been on the bus ever since 9am... n the journey to K. Perlis took 7-8 hours! omg... u can imagine.. i had neck sore.. backsite sore too.. then followed by an hour of ferry ride to Langkawi.. adding salt to my insults. :P
almost reach langkawi..

Nevertheless.. upon reaching Langkawi island, we were stormed by soOoOoo many busines ppl.. especially those taxi drivers... so quickly we picked one n hopped on it. En Shukri.. quite a nice guy.. the journey took us abt 15-25min. i dun remmber looo...

Then the best thing happened. Gues? We went to Langkawi, single mindedly for practical.. YET.. we do not have any letter from UPM. Worse still, none of us (Jun, Ting + me) has any contact with any of the underwater world ppl! gosh! where r we gona stay?? i brought my matric card.. but was i supposed to show around my matric card n ask?? yish yish isk isk...

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It was already 7pm... underwater world was then closed.. blur.. wat to do now? we walked around aimlessly... brrrr.... THEN... suddenly.. out of nowhere.. a guy suddenly came to us, "How can i help u?"

Thank God! Quickly i rushed into a serial of long-winded self-introductory sentences.. dun wana lose this chance. Then Ting asked silently, "How can sth so beautiful happen in this world?"

Ngek ngek ngek.. i couldn't help laughing with gratitude in my heart.. something so beautiful is happening?? hehe.. so then we were led to our quarters.. and met a bunch of new frens who introduced us alot of stuff... had dinner together..

hehehe... first day itself.. was TIRING.. but FUN. ;-)