The Thing about Langkawi

See, that's the thing about Langkawi, cheap choc and booze.. even the kid gotta enjoy it..

Hey dude, what's the matter?? Here's the beer; the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

By the way, I found my new favs from Langkawi!! Love it!

The Cadbury's Old Jamaica dark chocolate with Rum'n'Raisin.

Oo La La!

Oo la la, I am so happy now, we won the 2nd place in the pool tournament!! Although we can't win the first place, but 2nd place is already very much exceed my expectation. Thanks to my fabulous partner Mr. Goh!!!!! Fuiyo, runner up wor, happy happy now, just now even an online TV interviewed me, makes me feel like a star. Kekeke, pardon for my thickface-ness, I am a bit hyper now. Seriously, I'm loving this game already, thanks to my sifu Danny Wong too la.

Phew~~

Phew~~ won the pool tournament just now for the 2nd round. Gotta enter the 1st, 2nd and 3rd placing tomorrow. I was tension like there's no tomorrow. I think tomorrow's match is solely rely on luck already.. Anyway, I want to say it again, IT'S FUN!!

Can Comment Jor

Ya, some of you told me you can't leave a comment in my blog, I don't know what's wrong with it lo. But after disable some of the security features for the comment box, I guess now can comment jor gua... hopefully~ you may try it now..

Ho Ho Ho

Ho ho ho, I'm on cloud nine now actually. Just came back from the Cyberjaya Olympic and today me and my colleague - Goh, has won the first round of the pool tournament.. kekeke.. honestly I'm not really good in pool, just that it has to be mixed double, so just play for fun to fill up the place, no doubt Goh really can play... Although I never take this tournament really seriously, but I just can't help and was quite gan jeong too during the game, anyway, it's really FUN!! Now just see how it goes tomorrow. Wish me luck, as well as Danny coz he also gonna play for the single match tomorrow. All the best!!

Try Try Try - Jason Mraz

If we just try try try

Just to be ni-ni-nice

Then the world would be a better place for you and I

If we just live our lives

Putting our differences aside

Oh that would be so beautiful to me

Is there a life after death?

Do you believe there is life after death?

I was with a heavy heart watching a tv programme last night which discuss about the afterlife. It's such a gloomy show especially when it talks about how the beloved of the dead try every way to "communicate" with him/her because they believe the person still exist somewhere in a place beyond our imagination. They miss the person so much and wanted to know how is he/she doing in the other world. Yes, I can understand this feeling - the helpless or rather the regret one feel when they know they will never have the chance to compensate what they have done, or to express their love to the one they've lost anymore; thus they choose to believe the person is still around and hoping for one last chance to meet that person.

I do believe the afterlife, and I wish I'm right. Just like one of the old lady in the show believe, the dead will go to another world which is just like the world we are living now, people who has died many many years ago will still be staying there; awaiting for the reunion once again when our life end one day.

Mount Kinabalu - I came, I conquered, I survived!!!

Yeah, I'm back from Mount Kinabalu, in one piece.. Actually it's been few weeks since my return, but I was just lazy to blog and I'm so occupied with work lately.. I was still feeling exhausted and dehydrated for the past week; despite the muscle pain all over my body. It took me one entire week to heal, till now, I'm still feeling lazy and just don't feel like going anywhere~~~

Anyway, it was a superb experience I can say; there is no word can describe the sense of achievement I felt. Honestly, it's never easy to climb the South East Asia's second tallest mountain, there are total of 8km to reach the resthouse at Laban Rata from the base, then another 4km from the Laban Rata to the peak!

We started off from the base at 9am. Along the Mesilau trail, we can see our surrounding is changing miles after miles. From the first few km of usual rainforest scene, to the 5th km onwards where it starts getting misty and cold, then a bit further up, the path has turned from soil to rock; lined with strange looking plant. It's never like the usual hiking we used to do in the weekend.

Let's start!

The soil path.

Then we passed by the small waterfall, it doesn't showed in this photo though.

Then the suspension bridge

The milestone of 5km, it starts getting misty and cold. Time to put on the sweather.

Keep going... The view is fantastic along the Mesilau trail, our target is in sight!

Then from the 6km onwards, the path turn from soil to rock, lined by strange looking tree. You can't actually see it from the picture here, but the trees are having kind of wool thingy on its leaves.

We are getting INTO the cloud. But this last 2km to reach the Laban Rata resthouse was really killing me.

Then finally we reached the Laban Rata resthouse after 7++ hours of trekking. We quickly grab a hot drinks and the first thing came out in my mind is to call my dear. I just can't wait to share my joyous with him although I know he is at work during that time, he couldn't see me but I was actually shivering there and the excitement has overcame the exhaustion.

Laban Rata resthouse!! you have no idea how this looks like a heaven to us when it came in our sight.

Phew~~ Hot Milo is what we really deserved. Good job everyone!!

After taking dinner and shower at the resthouse, then we trek another 500m to our hut in order to grab a nap before continue our journey the next morning. However, could it be the unbearable coldness, or the altitude sickness, or perhaps the dehydration; most of us just couldn't sleep well on that night. Few of us including myself had developed fever and suffered from migraine too.

In front of the Laban Rata. Felt a little bit rejuvenated after the dinner and shower. But then the altitude sickness kicked in.

There are about 4km from the Laban Rata to the summit. Although it's half the distance of the treakking we had on the day before, but this 4km is really killing. Although few of us were not feeling well, but still we struggled and started off from Laban Rata at 2am, the wee hours in the morning, nothing you can expect except the darkness.

While we were going further up, every step has became more and more difficult due to the lack of oxygen and the icy cold breeze. This is the toughest part where lots of people decided to turn back. In fact, I also feel like giving up, but NO!! I'm not there to give up half way before reaching the peak! I strive with determination and crawl towards the summit under the starring night; yeah, the star are so bright from the mountain, I can felt it's so near to me like I can almost touch it.

Dawn

The peak is deceivingly close; so near yet so far. Now you see how tiny human is compare to the magnificient mountain.

At that time I've already exerted all my energy, I have to stop and rest/breath every 10 steps I walked/crawled, but I wanted to reach the summit so badly and I just kept going and going and going and going; solely rely on my mind power.

The cloud

We shared the same target; to reach the summit. Just keep crawling.

Finally I reached the peak after 4++ hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT?? I DID IT!! The view is fantastic!!!! We are not only in the cloud, but are ABOVE the cloud; standing on the peak and seeing the mountain surrounding us under our foot!! We even spotted a vertical rainbow on the summit, I think we were just too near to the rainbow thus there it comes the vertical rainbow.. Wow. WOW.. WOW... I can still feel the wow now after weeks by looking at the picture. The place is just so unreal.. It is neither picture nor word can describe you the real beauty of this mountain, you have to be there to experience it by yourself.

After snapping some photo, time to move our ass again. We took another 3-4 hours to reach the Laban Rata from the peak, then we checked out from our hut and grab the breakfast. After that, another 5-6 hours of trekking down the hill. It was raining while we came down from Laban Rata, the rain worsen the trekking as the path becomes so slippery and I felt so cold. I was almost half dead by the time I touched down at the base of Timpohon trail.

The fog while we came down from the peak down to Laban Rata.

Hold the rope tight!!

What can I say? this is a superb experience. Nothing can beat the feeling when u conqueuer such a huge mountain! I was amazed by my own determination too, I think I really deserved an applause from myself. ^_^

There are 17 of us in total. It was really great to meet you all. I had a great trip; not only the climb, but also all the fun we shared during the entire trip.

[Sharing] Installing LOVE

Tech Support: Yes, ... how can I help you?

Customer: Well, after much consideration, I've decided to install LOVE. Can you guide me though the process?

Tech Support: Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to proceed?

Customer: Well, I'm not very technical, but I think I'm ready. What do I do first?

Tech Support: The first step is to open your Heart. Have you located your Heart?

Customer: Yes, but there are several other programs running now. Is it okay to install Love while they are running?

Tech Support: What programs are running?

Customer: Let's see, I have Past Hurt, Low Self-Esteem, Grudge, and Resentment running right now.

Tech Support: No problem, Love will gradually erase Past Hurt from your current operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory but it will no longer disrupt other programs. Love will eventually override Low Self-Esteem with a module of its own called High Self-Esteem. However, you have to completely turn off Grudge and Resentment. Those programs prevent Love from being properly installed. Can you turn those off?

Customer: I don't know how to turn them off. Can you tell me how?

Tech Support: With pleasure. Go to your start menu and invoke Forgiveness. Do this as many times as necessary until Grudge and Resentment have been completely erased.

Customer: Okay, done! Love has started installing itself. Is that normal?

Tech Support: Yes, but remember that you have only the base program. You need to begin connecting to other Hearts in order to get the upgrades.

Customer: Oops! I have an error message already. It says, "Error - Program not run on external components." What should I do?

Tech Support: Don't worry. It means that the Love program is set up to run on Internal Hearts, but has not yet been run on your Heart. In non-technical terms, it simply means you have to Love yourself before you can Love others.

Customer: So, what should I do?

Tech Support: Pull down Self-Acceptance; then click on the following files: Forgive-Self; Realize Your Worth; and Acknowledge your Limitations.

Customer: Okay, done.

Tech Support: Now, copy them to the "My Heart" directory. The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching faulty programming. Also, you need to delete Verbose Self-Criticism from all directories and empty your Recycle Bin to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back.

Customer: Got it. Hey! My heart is filling up with new files. Smile is playing on my monitor and Peace and Contentment are copying themselves all over My Heart. Is this normal?

Tech Support: Sometimes. For others it takes a while, but eventually everything gets it at the proper time. So LOVE is installed and running. One more thing before we hang up. LOVE is Freeware. Be sure to give itand its various modules to everyone you meet. They will in turn share it with others and return some cool modules back to you.