Visit the Cats town

After landed on the Borneo territory, I quickly got up from my seat and left the aircraft. Gosh! The low-cost carrier has the smallest seat ever! It has been 10 years since I last came to the city of Cats aka Kuching, Sarawak; so I had never known I needed to go to the immigration checks... Well, it's still within Malaysia...?! No..?

16th September 2010, it's Malaysia Day celebrating the merger of East and West Malaysia; but Kuching was covered with cumulonimbus for the whole day. That was a visiting trip to the East, visiting my friend S and family. Sitting inside the car and watching the buildings passing beside me, I think, Kuching is still the same as before.

It was a late night when I arrived and I still had cute little guests welcoming me to the house, Alfie and Alzif; and yeah, finally I met Alfie! It was really a short trip, 3 days and 3 nights; and I didn't plan where to go at all which I just wanted to see the city, the culture, the Raya, and people.

Of course the family would love to bring me explore the city and more, so her dad suggested we should go to the Bako National Park located in North Kuching. Visiting a national park seems like a must when you go to a place like Sarawak, which has thousand years tropical jungle and rare species animals. Plus, S and the family had never been to the this place before! What?! They have been staying there for centuries! Even before the dinosaurs exist!

Waking up in a delightful morning, the whole family was preparing for the adventurous national park. I put my bottle in my back-pack and got ready for the exciting trip! After breakfast, we started the engines on both cars, got out of the city, entering narrow path towards the Bako jetty for the boat.

Sitting on the speed boat, feeling the wind skate over my face, I took out my camera and started taking those excited faces. We saw thousand years of sand stones standing surrounded by sea water, some stone looks like frog/human faces/turtle; which you just have to apply your imagination into it. Moreover, some native believe there are stories behind these different looking sand stones.

After side-seeing the stones on the boat, we arrived the national park; then we found out it is actually a huge jungle and we were supposed to trek in the jungle for 1.6km with Levi's and flip-flop! In fact, we did the jungle trek and reached a beautiful beach on the other side of a hill. It was really tiring yet be worth seeing Proboscis monkeys too!

Besides the national park, I was just staying in the city for the rest of my days there. Had very nice Laksa Sarawak/Mee Jawa Satay/Seafood, the local food and taste are very different from West Malaysia style; and it tastes really nice for me. Kuching is a city where it has all the malls, food, necessities as any city; it is not an Ulu place like you think, so please don't still imagine that the people are living on the trees!

A special mention should be made about S and the family, for 3 days and 3 nights, even though it was not long, the whole family treated me well. Gave me a comfortable 3-night stay, good hospitality, went to Bako together and bought me local moon cake for my family too. They made the trip memorable!

I am so thankful that her family actually wanted me to stay longer, and her dad asked me when I was packing my luggage :"you really want to go back?". And I told him I should leave some of my belonging in the house, so that I will come back again. Eventually, I did leave my belt there which I really forgot about that!

I'm grateful that S and the family were being part of my life, we encountered; then, we continue our own journey of life!
Once again, I would like to thank all of them for everything! =)

Another BIG day!!!

My dad has been so dedicated to the family, work and society! He has been so busy, even though I didn't get a chance to wish him 'happy birthday' personally!

Today is his birthday, so I would like to wish him to be healthier and happier for the coming years! Happy Birthday Dad, love ya!

Besides wishing my dad, I discovered a box of old pictures this afternoon. All of those black and white pictures which had been hiding above of the wardrobe all the time! The pictures belong to my sis, J, she collected those and arranged nicely in few albums.

We flipped through page by page and we could not stop laughing, those pictures look hilarious! The way people wore and posed 20-30 years ago make us laugh the most, also those 70s hair style and bell-bottomed pants! What a good memory!

Well, I wasn't there yet during the 70s, but it's still funny to look at families when they were young! In fact, I found my own picture taken when I was 3 year-old I guess, and I would like to share it here. I had an impatient look and was wearing a shirt written 'WANTED'! Hahahahahahaha.....! =D

Birthday...=)

I would like to take this opportunity to wish my sis, F, Happy Birthday!!!

The Gratitude

There are so many things that I feel grateful for, so many!

I'm grateful that I have a wonderful family;

have more than enough necessity to live with;

have most of what I had wanted;

have a good health;

have shelter provided;

have traveled to places;

have the food that I love to eat;

have friends around to hang out;

have people to help me carry when it's too heavy;

have buddies to share my happiness and sadness with;

have all the support when I need it;

have assisted even though I didn't ask for;

have Nat King Cole to cheer up my day;

etc

etc

Gratitude is the greatest gift, and I'm thankful. =)

Michael Jackson's This Is It!

Human only appreciate when they lost something, and this is so true. I bought a MJ album in 2006, and I didn't really know how to enjoy his masterpiece that time. Nowadays, I started to love his songs, however, I have no chance to see his live performance anymore. What a pity.....=(

After 'This Is It' had been released, I'm watching the dvd everyday in my room, even though not watching, will listen to his songs and still loving it.
Anyway, MJ is the legend.
Love lives forever.....

Mama, who is sitting inside the cockpit?

"Jet engines sound..." from 30,000ft, I can clearly know that is a B747 passing overhead my house.

Remembering many years ago, little girl asked:"Mama, who is sitting inside the cockpit? are they trained in the army?"

"No, they are pilots. They are trained in the flying school like anybody else sweetheart, and there are girl pilots as well." she replied.

This curious little girl starts her fantasies, "what's the feeling of flying an aircraft? is it scary?", "Wow! the pilots get to go around the world, how cool is that!"

Love travelling after since she went overseas for the first time, little girl began searching the information about pilots and flying schools. She fell in love with aircrafts eventually, and set 'become an airline pilot' as her goal. After going through few difficult thoughts and decisions, she finally went into a flying school located in an lovely island.

She remembers the first time she sat in the small training aircraft, back-sitting her batch mate and a French instructor flying around the island. The feeling was ....hardly described. A mix feeling of nervous, anxious, joys and dream come true! The good thing about small aircraft is the pilot can actually see more fascinating scenery from top, and more flexible on the controls.

Time flies fast, like it really speeds up when you think about the past. 18 months of training in an island, the little girl has grown up and got her wings! This is an incredible experience which she can actually fly an aircraft, though it's just the very first step to become a commercial pilot.

And today, she is working hard to have the dream come true which she set when she was a little girl. =D
Good Luck!

Is life being ridiculous?

I was watching this movie last night, telling a story happened in the 60s, there's a family living in a self built shop-house at the end of a street in downtown Hong Kong. This shabby house has very poor foundation, which can be easily blown away by the typhoon. Selling handmade shoes for living, they have to pay for the pricey rented land every month plus paying the expensive education for two sons.

A small business doesn't make big money, instead of eating more rice everyday they are suffering big financial issue. It gets worst after the doctor diagnosed their elder son has blood cancer, parents fight hard to get cures and sell off their valuables to get him medicines. With the unsatisfied technologies at that time, and those immature human behaviors have killed their son in the end. Well, I think this world has more sadder stories.

I have a thought, what if one day I have a terminal disease? Would it be cured? What if there's no tomorrow for me? Then what should I do today? Should I be scared then? I have no idea! What is life actually? What should we do in our life? Work to death? NO! Sometimes, it's just ridiculous when we think of it; relatives or friends passed away in a sudden. Did they enjoy their life before that?

I always forget how blissful am I living in such a nice environment. No poverty, no earthquake, no natural disaster, no domestic violence, no infectious disease, etc. I am totally blessed to be here! I have a superb family, we have fun all the time and love gathering! I will remind myself everyday when I wake up in the morning saying "Thank God I'm here!". I'm enjoying my life, be healthy, less anger and more laughter.
God bless you...

'Grey's Anatomy'

From the movie 'Made of Honor' and 'Enchanted', I fell in love with Patrick Dempsey; his curly hair and the killing smile attracted me! Seeing from those heart melted features, I started watching the drama series called the 'Grey's Anatomy'. I had been watching Cantonese and Chinese dramas, but now instead of those I'm crazy about 'Grey's Anatomy'. Was it an upgrade or just a change in interest?

He still looks great in dramas, and there are few really nice artists casting in this as well. Season by season, there will be 'new comers' joining the show and new stories too. In fact, one thing very good watching this is, can learn those medical terms and stuffs; those diagnosis, diseases and how a doctor works in a hospital. So I think it's pretty great, it's not too 'drama-ish'.....just nice! I just finished the season 6 today, and I am demanding for the season 7!

Laughs, sadness, tears, moving adrenaline and angers; these are why I love watching Grey's Anatomy! =D

"Mayday Mayday Mayday!!!"

7th Sept 2010, I received a message from my friend while on the way going to have lunch.
"Training aircraft crashed and killed a female trainee pilot."
A small aircraft crashed in the hillside an caught fire after bang into a tree, the male instructor is seriously injured. Unfortunately, the female cadet could not be able to climb out of the aircraft during the huge fiery burns, she was burnt alive.

Flying is fun yet dangerous! However, this wont hold back my interest to be the person sitting in the cockpit! In fact, I am grateful that nothing happens during my training one year ago. "Phewwwww!"
This indeed is a serious job, a person's attitude is very important, so do I! Well, emergency happens all the time, no matter how experienced you are, how prepared you are; fate is still the fate! May she rest in Peace.

'The Last Lecture'

Before this, I never read books or novels, I do only comics. Reading would just make me fall asleep after two pages, it was my "sleeping pill". In a fine afternoon, I received my sister's e-mail recommending me this book called 'The Last Lecture' by Randy Pausch.

It is about a man, a professor, a husband's true story; saying how dedicated a man was before and after he found out he had a terminal cancer. After his oncologist informed him that he had three to six months of "good health" left, he appreciated more what's beside him and what he had.

This is a kind of book which everyone should invest in, it teaches people how you should treat your life as a gift and not to ignore good thing or people which surrounds you! I am learning slowly from that, at the same time, I started to read more books! How can I neglect all these good stuffs!

Special thanks to my eldest sister, M. =)

Get back on the track.....choo!! choo!!

Early June this year, after I came back from the "adventurous" trip, thinking of getting a degree in the future would colour my resume, so I decided to enrol the pre-U studies in a college. It has been almost 4 years since I touched my science text books, I barely remember what is the periodic table and the math equations.

In the second week of June, I walked into the 603 classroom anxiously; it was a biology class which I didn't pick that subject eventually. The lecturer so allowed me to have my seat and my new classmates started introducing themselves; after I heard their introductions I realized that they are all either 17 or 18 year-old! Purely young and graduated from secondary schools!

Well, I am the oldest student in the class indeed, so sometimes I can't stand their attitudes or the way they talk. May be I had been through and seen more things than them, I wasn't that 18 year-old little naive school girl anymore. In fact, my chemistry monthly test result shows I have completely no idea what's about the subject!

It is pretty hard to get back on track after few years with people who are already on the track, but still, I am so lazy to study those very thick text books. It's even thicker than my aeronautics dictionary! Plus, in pre-U studies, to get straight As, every student has to do tons of exercises each day; all those pass years questions which are from year 2001 until 2009! That's hell a lot of it! Anyway, I am still having my own sweet time for this first semester, though my AS exam will be on the next May/June and my classmates are started to freak out! =D

However, at the same time, I am still catching up and waiting for my big dream to come true, hopefully it will happen even before I finish my pre-U studies! Eventually, I still need to work hard at the end of the day, pumping out all of my free time for maths exercises. Err......I am still working hard on this part though!
Wish me luck! =D

Laziness attacks!

Woke up late this morning as 8806 was in progress last night until 1am! There's class for today at 1530, chemistry practical which is lab practice. 2 hours class for today, which makes me feel so lazy and moody to go to class under this hot sun!

I was convincing myself not go to the college today; reasons start popping out from my head!
"It's hot today, I might feel sick after that",
"It's just practical, it should be fine if I don't go once in a while",
"Today has only 2 hours lesson, it is troublesome to go all the way for a short class"
"I don't think mum knows the way where she is supposed to drop me"
...........................

All of these nonsense reasons did work, and it brings me here writing blog about how I could skip classes today! What..?!
Well kids, please do not learn this bad habit from me! Giving yourself excuses are just cheating on your own, it wont make any better. Like now, staying at home is just boring.....!